Hi, I tried it, but as far as I can tell, control alt F1 and entering espeakup didn't bring it back. I did check to make sure that the soundcard is connected to the VM. This has to be done sometimes in VmWare, The audio will go out and you need to press control alt and tap the alt key and go down to connected devices, and reconnect the sound card. But that is not what is happening here. I just deleted some ISOs from my C: drive and did a disk cleanup, so I'd be sure to have enough RAM, and rebooted and started over, and I still use espeakup during the install. If there is a way to have the printed version of each window during the install, I can go back to that when the speech in the installer quits, so I know which window is up next. This time, I got as far as pressing #1 for entire disk, and I entered, and the speech died.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chevelle" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 2:53 PM Subject: Re: Speech going out during installation On a installation for a physical system you can type control+alt+f1 and switch to the console, but I can't tell you how to do that with a virtual system that is in the middle of an install. One trick you might be able to use is to install 'tesseract'. sudo apt install tesseract-ocr Then while the virtual system is active, press the printScreen key. If ORCA is active it will read the window at least when using 'quickemu'. Now it should let you save a graphical image of the screen. Now go back to the main system to the directory where the file is located. It should be screenshot.jpg or screenshot.png. tesseract screenshot-XYZ.png stdout |less Maybe it won't work with your setup, test the screenshot part first. On 11/18/25 2:32 PM, K0LNY ?? wrote: > I wonder if there is a podcast/recording of someone going through the > steps > of a Debian installation? > If so, I could follow that to know which screen I am on. > I've made the choices enough that I know what I want from each screen, but > I > don't know which screen I'm on. > This PC does not have a monitor, otherwise I'd use my iPhone to see which > screen is up. > Glenn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "K0LNY ??" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]>; "john doe" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 12:58 PM > Subject: Re: Speech going out during installation > > > You would think 4GB is enough. > It could be that the host HD is low though, but I was able to use 20 GB > for > the drive size before, and I removed that VM, and I only gave this one 7 > GB > to start with. > That comes out of the host machine's HD storage. > I hate this looking for stuff that I can delete to create more HD space. > However, I still would like to know if there is a way to get speech back > when it quits. > Seems to me that in earlier times using the installer, there was a way to > drop out to a base system for a few tasks during the install. > If so, perhaps I can call up the screenreader again there. > Glenn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "john doe" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 12:51 PM > Subject: Re: Speech going out during installation > > > On 11/18/25 7:46 PM, K0LNY ?? wrote: >> Hello Group, >> So, sometimes, using VmWare, during the installation of Debian, using the >> talking installer, the voice goes out. >> Is there some sort of escape sequence/way to step away to recall the TTS? >> Otherwise, I have to close the VM setup and start over and hope it does >> not happen again. >> Usually it may stop talking after I have configured the disk to write to. >> Sometimes I get through it without losing speech, but it would be nice to >> not have to keep starting over. >> > This looks like the guest has not enough resources. >
