Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-05-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
This may be a little help, for a mechanical disk it took about 45 seconds for the disk to do its first spin up then stop. With flash drives that are not mechanical 30 seconds might work. On Wed, 1 May 2013, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Jude DaShiell, le Wed 01 May 2013 04:03:28 -0400, a ?crit : >

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-05-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thanks, I didn't even know that was possible just using bios. I wonder if some linux utility could be written to put a modification like that in on a computer.On Thu, 2 May 2013, hadi wrote: > it cannot be redirected to a soundcard. > however theres also another solution > it depends on mother

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-05-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jude DaShiell, le Thu 02 May 2013 06:49:24 -0400, a écrit : > Probably too complex to do, but if a pc speaker isn't available could a > beep be redirected to a machine's default sound card? Too complex to do with the tools we are using indeed. ATM the Debian CD uses syslinux, which does not have

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-05-02 Thread hadi
it cannot be redirected to a soundcard. however theres also another solution it depends on motherboard and bios options. with a help of a sighted person, i enabled "beep sound at boot installation" on my bios so whenever a boot screen comes up my computer amits a familiar beeping sound. -rega

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-05-02 Thread Geoff Shang
On Thu, 2 May 2013, Jude DaShiell wrote: Probably too complex to do, but if a pc speaker isn't available could a beep be redirected to a machine's default sound card? Don't se how it could be done without sound drivers. Geoff. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibility-requ...@lists.d

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-05-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
Probably too complex to do, but if a pc speaker isn't available could a beep be redirected to a machine's default sound card? On Wed, 1 May 2013, Geoff Shang wrote: > On Wed, 1 May 2013, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > The issue was found and fixed, but that won't be in 7.0.0, only in > > 7.0.1. H

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-05-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jude DaShiell, le Wed 01 May 2013 04:03:28 -0400, a écrit : > There was no beep when I installed rc2 either, just wait until the disk > stops spinning and hit s and enter and you should be good to go. The > beep comes and goes through versioning changes. Rather through bugs getting introduced a

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-05-01 Thread Geoff Shang
On Wed, 1 May 2013, Samuel Thibault wrote: The issue was found and fixed, but that won't be in 7.0.0, only in 7.0.1. Had the issue been reported even just a couple of days before (the bug is there since alpha1 in July 2012!), it would have been in time for 7.0.0... Unfortunately, the machine I

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-05-01 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Samuel Thibault (01/05/2013): > The issue was found and fixed, but that won't be in 7.0.0, only in > 7.0.1. Had the issue been reported even just a couple of days before > (the bug is there since alpha1 in July 2012!), it would have been in > time for 7.0.0... Added to the installer errata page:

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-05-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Wed 01 May 2013 13:11:21 +0200, a écrit : > It should have been enabled for RC2, it's not normal that it isn't > enabled, I'll have to check, but that'll most probably not be fixed for > wheezy 7.0.0, and have to wait for wheezy 7.0.1. The issue was found and fixed, but that wo

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-05-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Sexton, le Wed 01 May 2013 15:05:00 +0530, a écrit : > Exactly, it's a flash drive. > No beep, not easy to know when it's doing anything... > Why does the beep come and go with different revisions? > Tell someone to stop removing it! Nobody is removing it. Please don't assume that somebody i

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-05-01 Thread David Sexton
Exactly, it's a flash drive. No beep, not easy to know when it's doing anything... Why does the beep come and go with different revisions? Tell someone to stop removing it! David On 01-05-2013 02:58 PM, Jason White wrote: Jude DaShiell wrote:ll someone to stop removing it! David There was no

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-05-01 Thread Jason White
Jude DaShiell wrote: > There was no beep when I installed rc2 either, just wait until the disk > stops spinning and hit s and enter and you should be good to go. The > beep comes and goes through versioning changes. This doesn't help, unfortunately, if the USB drive referred to turns out to be

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-05-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
All I did was to use wodim to burn the iso. When I got a usable dvd in the drive everything worked the first time. You may have run into a bunch of Chinese Specials in terms of DVD's, these look like they'll work but bomb out and turn into coasters. On Wed, 1 May 2013, David Sexton wrote: >

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-05-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
There was no beep when I installed rc2 either, just wait until the disk stops spinning and hit s and enter and you should be good to go. The beep comes and goes through versioning changes. On Wed, 1 May 2013, David Sexton wrote: > Hi, > > I think I am having bigger problems than just the rele

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-04-30 Thread David Sexton
Hi, I think I am having bigger problems than just the release. I have a Lenovo idea pad u310 Dual booting windows seven and vinux 3.2 which is based on ubuntu 11.04. Both OS are amd64 and run alright. Now I want to replace ubuntu with debian. I downloaded the first dvd of rc2 and in ubuntu ha

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-04-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
Hi Samuel, I have a hard drive reserved for rc3 when it becomes available to test it. On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Jude DaShiell, le Tue 30 Apr 2013 05:08:39 -0400, a ?crit : > > While that environment installed > > smoothly, orca setup was not run even though speaking install

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-04-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jude DaShiell, le Tue 30 Apr 2013 05:08:39 -0400, a écrit : > While that environment installed > smoothly, orca setup was not run even though speaking install was used. Yes, this was only fixed this morning, and should be available in RC3. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-accessibi

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-04-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
I tried it on my amd k8 athelon system. The installation was very smooth, but that's not all I have to report. As part of the packages to install, I chose the desktop environment. While that environment installed smoothly, orca setup was not run even though speaking install was used. This h

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-04-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
David Sexton, le Tue 30 Apr 2013 11:39:47 +0530, a écrit : > Is there no software speech support for the full debian dvds? There is. > I downloaded all 10 of them That should not be needed, simply downloading dvd1 should be plenty. > and when I start from the first one there is no beep and no s

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-04-29 Thread David Sexton
Hi, Is there no software speech support for the full debian dvds? I downloaded all 10 of them and when I start from the first one there is no beep and no speech. Does speech only work on the net install? This doesn't make sense. I am trying to install last week's weekly build of testing... Si

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-04-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, This will most probably be the final release, please test it so we can write any errata before releasing the first official Debian version that includes software speech synthesis :) Samuel Cyril Brulebois, le Sat 27 Apr 2013 20:57:54 +0200, a écrit : > The Debian Installer team[1] is plea

Debian Installer 7.0 RC2 release

2013-04-28 Thread Cyril Brulebois
The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the second release candidate of the installer for Debian 7.0 "Wheezy". Improvements in this release of the installer = * accessibility/gdm3: Introduce basic Orca support (#689559). * brltty: Fix get