Hello, Nick Gawronski, le Mon 10 Jan 2011 10:42:35 -0700, a écrit : > Hi, Reading those two documents it sounded like you had to press down errow > to get to the graphical installer but was not totally clear on this point
Yes: the first item is selected by default, so you need to press down once to get the the second item. > so I think there needs to be some improovment in the exact process on how > to get to the installer from the boot menu as the letter choices are not > shown in the documentation either. It's too late for the squeeze release, such fixes will be only in wheezy. > Also, the DVD iso image beeped but not the CD iso image or the mini > GTK image Where did you get the latter from, exactly? (All the official builds should be beeping, but not the weekly/daily test builds). > and when viewing the menu.cfg file > with cat it did beep on the DVD image but not on the CD or GTK mini iso > image. Which is an indication that the latter are probably just test builds. > Also, I tried hitting escape and typing installgui and the speakup > options but nothing worked at all. That's not the documented way. It happens that it should still be working, though. > More keyboard commands need to be added > to the documentation for the boot menu as I could not follow the directions > I tried hitting down errow then tab then typing in the commands By "commands", you mean after typing tab, just type speakup.synth=apollo for the apollo synthesizer, right? (without pressing the escape key at all) That's exactly what should work. If it doesn't, there's a problem somewhere, not in what you are doing, but somewhere else, you'll probably need a pair of eyes to tell us what's happening on the screen. > rebooted and tried down errow once then tab then space then commands. No need for the space, it's there already. > When > that did not work I tried doing the same but instead using escape and > typing in everything on one line then the tab stuff. No, as the documentation says, you need to press tab first to get to the boot command. > I noticed that when going into text mode my screen made a clicking > sound when I pressed escape so that was a helpful signal. Yes, escape will drop you into the raw syslinux prompt, but that's not a documented way of doing things, as "installgui" may change in the future. Just to make sure: you know that official builds don't have software speech, only hardware speech is supported, right? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
