Re: woody root.bin

[Andor Demarteau <ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl>]

while this method no doubt works (I'll have a look at it, seems
interesting enough).
I'd advice against using woody for first-install just yet.
It still is in the testing-stage.
I have successfully installed debian via brltty-enabled root.bin on 2
floppies using the potato distro.
Be sure to note that the default root.bin is a compressed ext2-filesystem.

It may seem that the woody-root.bin has more data in it then the
potato-version.
If this is not the case (you have to unpack and mount both via loopback to
check that), then brltty will certainly fit inside it.
Note that make install directly to the image will NOT work.
Best is to install a staticly-linked brltty on yoru system and use
install-brltty script.
If this is not possible, copy the files by hand ;) to /sbin /lib/brltty
and /etc/brltty (creat the last 2 dirs by hand as well) and don't forget
to creaqte /dev/vcsa0 ;)
then edit /etc/init.d/rcS to include /sbin/brltty

now, are the files you load from the 3rd disk loaded into memory (ramdisk)
or directly executed from the floppy?
In the last case you will run into trouble if you need to insert the
rescue-disk for installing the kernel and stuff.
also note that you'd better create /dev/vcsa0 on the root.bin itself
already.

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