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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@CAM.ORG>
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Subject: Re: alve boot disk for debian
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On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Martin Courcelles wrote:

> Hello There:
> system.  He has an alva braille display and we want to build a bootdisk
> for it.  I guess this question goes to Nicolas, but I misplaced his
> address.  Does brltty support Alvas and if so, it is difficult to set up?  

I'm here!

If difficult?  It depends.
I don't know how Debian boot/root installation disks are made.  I already
modified Slackware and Red Hat boot disks: Slackware = very easy, Red Hat
= need little hacking (you need to replace init by a stub init to do a
fork and so on...).  If debian contains some startup scripts, you just
have to compile BRLTTY with all settings right in the Makefile, copy it to
the bootdisk and call it from the startup script.  

And of course BRLTTY supports Alva.

Anyway if you need more help tell me!


Nicolas Pitre, B. ing.
nico@cam.org