If there's a gentoo-boot mailing list maybe someone on that list knows about the file that could be edited in my original post.
-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 5 Feb 2024, matthew dyer wrote: > Well I’ve never was Able to get speech working on a gentoo cd so just did it > using another system is9o plus I like using a guy br9owser as I can copy what > I want off I chose, but in any case I agree with you. If there was an easier > way to d > > > O this, I would experiment more. > > Matthew > > > > On Feb 4, 2024, at 5:08 PM, Jude DaShiell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The name is Jude andnobody needs to use ubuntu mate to install gentoo. > > It's possible to follow the installation guide with normal gentoo disks > > themselves. > > The trick is to have the installation guide open in one tty and have the > > other one where you run commands to install gentoo. In the reading window > > gentoo has links and maybe lynx available to use to bring up the > > installation guide. Then you switch back and forth between those two > > windows keeping both open until finished. It might be alt-right and > > alt-left to switch between windows or ctty 2 and ctty1 keyed in on the > > command line to do that. > > > > > > -- > > Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. > > Please use in that order." > > Ed Howdershelt 1940. > > > > On Sun, 4 Feb 2024, matthew dyer wrote: > > > >> Jus, > >> > >> Just currius, but have you tried installed using a different bistro iso, > >> i.e ubuntu-mate? I heave done this and while the install for the most > >> part worked getting speech was a problem for me. The best part is that > >> you can follow the install guide. Thanks. > >> > >> Matthew > >> > >> > >> > >>> On Feb 4, 2024, at 3:15 PM, Jude DaShiell <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> On a flash drive in a gentoo installer iso does a file exist in which boot > >>> parameters can be saved so on first boot of installer gentoo comes up > >>> talking? This would be for install-minimal. > >>> Does the gentoo gui installer have orca as part of its software set? > >>> If I do install gentoo, I'm thinking to try openrc with minimal > >>> installation if this can be done with speakup enabled and pull down a > >>> pre-built kernel since that kernel building step was fatal for me three > >>> times when trying to install gentoo in the past. > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> > >>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > >>> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. > >>> Please use in that order." > >>> Ed Howdershelt 1940. > >>> > >> > >> > >> > > > > >
