Slackware96 rootdisk for blind people

Slackware96 rootdisk for blind people

[Kazunori Minatani]

 I make rootdisk for all ABT with old firmware. I update
  ftp://leb.net/incoming/blinux
and it will be moved to /pub/blinux. Here is 
brlrootdisk.readme.
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WARNING This is test version. Use at own your risk.

 This is Slackware96(3.1) rootdisk for blind people. It is based
on text.gz(rootdisk for text terminal) and BRLTTY is installed
that filesystem. This is only supported ALVA braille terminals
with old firmware. BRLTTY uses /dev/ttyS0. This is still test
version.

Contents
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abt20o.gz	for abt320 with old firmware
abt40o.gz       for abt340 with old firmware
abt80o.gz       for abt380 with old firmware
abt4do.gz       for abt340-desktop with old firmware
abt8do.gz       for abt380-desktop with old firmware
(Rootdisk for ABT3xx with new firmware will come soon. It
can autodetect braille dispaly. If you want rootdisk for
other braille display, send me request. I will hurry up.)

Install:
 By normal way(rawrite.exe on dos, or @dd if=abt40o.gz of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k@
on Linux). And use as normal Slackware rootdisk.

Copyright: GPL

Author: Kazunori Minatani 95011245@gakushuin.ac.jp

        Please send me any comments.
Kazunori Minatani  Gakushuin university
                     department of Law
E-mail: 95011245@gakushuin.ac.jp
       or minachan@interlink.or.jp

Re: Slackware96 rootdisk for blind people

[Travis Siegel]

Actually, when i was installing linux, I couldn't find *anywhere* a boot
disk that used the serial ports to allow logins that way.  I eventually
had to get my roommate to sit through the entire linux install process,
until it was all done, then go edit the inittab file myself.  (actually,
told him what to change) In any case, a simple text.gz (or even color.gz)
disk that uses serial ports would solve a *lot* of linux install problems
for visually impaired users, as we can then install on one machine, and
use another via serial port as a terminal.