Re: Installing Gnome on Redhat 7.1 - is it possible

["Thomas D. Ward" <tward1978 earthlink net>]

Hello, Rich.
Ok, you really really should get a newer version of Red Hat not only for
installs like this, but for security as well as other reasons.
What applications are you worried about compatibility issues with? I have
both a 8.0 system and a 9.0 system which I could test these applications
with, or recompile them on to see if they will work on newer versions of RH.
As for sighted assistence Red Hat can be installed by you if you have a
second computer to read the prompts. For example:
I've kept on hand an old 486 with Jaws for dos and the commo terminal
software which I hook up to the Linux computers serial port, and read the
install prompts from the IBM 486 with win 95 on it.
If you want to use your Windows screen reader to do the install I suggest
using Terraterm Pro although I still think the dos screen reader commo does
just a little better job.


----- Original Message -----
From: Rich Caloggero <rjc MIT EDU>
To: <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 1:50 PM
Subject: Installing Gnome on Redhat 7.1 - is it possible


> I think it came with Gnome 1.4 or something. I tried garnome and looked at
> CVS, but so many things need to be updated and I just don't know that much
> about linux... Is this a hopeless task? The reason I'm not doing something
> more sane, like updating to Redhat 8 or 9 first is that:
> 1. I've got stuff running on the machine which I don't want to chance on
> breaking
> 2. Can't do without sighted assistance, cuz I don't have speakup or
> anything - I login from windows and use it remotely
>
> Got any suggestions?
>
> Thanx so much in advance...
>
>                     Rich
>
>
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