Re: Installing Gnome on Redhat 7.1 - is it possible

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Thomas,

I will be installing a newer version of Redhat at some point. I'm guessing 
I could just use my braille Lite as a dumb terminal connected to a serial 
port. My one question is what parameters to set it to. I would want to 
It is now set to 9600,n,8,1.

Thanks,
John
 On Thu, 29 May 2003, Thomas D. Ward wrote:

> 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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