-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 10:28:49AM +0100, chris hallsworth wrote: > As I am blind I am unable > to watch what is happening on the virtual machine console during guest > operating system installation. So, not only is it for beginners and QA > efforts, as well as saving time for advanced users, consider that it's > handy for visually impaired users. Until a guest operating system is > installed, one cannot install assistive software like NVDA for Windows > and Orca for Ubuntu. I know Orca comes with Ubuntu, but that's not the > point. It would be the same if a visually impaired person wants to > install a host operating system from scratch. Sorry for the long post, > but I wish to emphasize my points.
There are a couple of ways which one can use to do an unattended install of windows. One of those is built into windows itself since win2k if memory serves. As for gnu/linux, iso images exist (some official, most not), which include speakup, orca, and such, to allow for interactive install of gnu/linux distros from scratch. I know for a fact that fedora, and debian, also let you do an unattended installs, and maybe other distros allow for this as well. While having virtualbox do an unattended install of guest operating systems would be helpful, this is not to say that unattended installs of windows, and gnu/linux cannot be done by a VI person today, on virtual or bare hardware. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkws4zYACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyBHxQCfZWg4b8pJOL0ttrCtDRrxhAQT VDUAoMXlDJwWrJQIcZnUYtTuQxM0l0++ =xUCd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
