As I offered, here is a quotation from the Debian accessibility wiki.
I might have cut it down a bit more, but you will see the information
relating to how to start with wheezy and shift to squeeze.
for the record, I ended up installing hardware speech, the field for
software speech can be edited, and as I had help here this is what I I ended
up doing. The software speech was not working, and as I had no way to post
the error, I just used my hardware synthesizer, or installed this for use
later. by which I mean once I discovered how to install the DVDs of
squeeze.
However the steps stated for changing the priority do not work.
I asked Samuel the author of the wiki post if debian could only install
from one install medium and was told Debian would not care. However the
mirror archive function he referenced did not appear.
Hope this is clear.
best to read carefully as there is slightly more data here than needful.
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:07:18 -0500 (CDT)
Debian installer accessibility
The Debian installer has braille, speech, and contrast accessibility
features which are documented in the installation manual for the
stable release,the last upload of the installation manual for the
testing release , as well asthe current draft for next upload.
USB devices are automatically detected, serial devices need
configuration at boot.
In addition to the existing hardware speech support in the installer of
Squeeze (Debian 6.0), software speech will be supported in Wheezy
(Debian 7.0), the daily builds (the netboot mini.iso for instance
i386amd64) have it: when you get at the boot menu (a beep is
emitted), simply press s and enter.
If speech synthesis does not come up, we need information to find out
where the bug is. Inside the installer, press alt-f2 to switch to a
shell console, press enter to start the shell, and type
amixer scontrols
and post the output todebian-accessibil...@lists.debian.org so we
can know whether a sound card was detected and what the volume level
names are. If only an error message shows up, or if you do not have
resources to be able to read the shell console, please try to run a
live CD, make sound work with it, and post the output of lsmod to
debian-accessibil...@lists.debian.org so we can know what sound
driver is missing.
Images for squeeze with software speech can be downloaded from
http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/espeakup/ but they don't seem
to be working any more due to kernel update in the official archive. As
a replacement, the testing images (i.e. Wheezy) can be downloaded from
]http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer , and when given the
archive mirror choice, type '<' to get back to main menu, change the
priority to lowest, enter the mirror selection part again in the main
menu, and then one can choose to install Squeeze instead of Wheezy, and
change the priority to high again with the same method.
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 19:16 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
For either case, do you have high speed internet access?
The OP doesn't have any Internet access for the computer where Debian
should be installed.
- Ralf
PS: Thread was and is "unique install question?" ;).
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