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Mind describing the procedure you took, (I.E. what vmware programs to
download, since there is a player and server), and everything that you
did? Is running gnu/linux in vmware with windows as the host really a
viable alternative to resizing existing partitions, and dealing with
installing on machines with no serial ports? Thanks.

Greg


On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 06:23:10PM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote:
> Howdy,
>     I'm glad to be able to report that I was able to get a fully speakup-enabled installation of Gentoo Linux onto a VmWare image.  This helps solve some rather annoying problems with my particular computer, specifically the cdrom drive being a little flaky.
>     I've found that Espeak works very well in the virtual machine, and that in general unless I'm doing something intensive--like compilation--the performance is great.
>     I'm actually rather proud of myself in that I was able to do this installation without sighted help, something which I had previously needed.
> I'll stop rambling now.
> Thanks for listening,
> Zack.
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