alve boot disk for debian

alve boot disk for debian

[Martin Courcelles]

Hello There:
	One of my friends is setting up debien 1. something on his
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?  
Thanks
Martin

Re: alve boot disk for debian

[Nicolas Pitre]

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

Re: alve boot disk for debian

[T's Mailing Lists]

On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> 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!

Hello all,

we (Oliver Buechel & me) 're currently making a speech enabled soundcard
based Linux system. So since we're at it I can as well offer some help
here. I've got no clue about BRLTTY yet, but being a long time Debian
user, I might help some with the Debian boot disk. If you, Nicolas, would
give me some examples (the stuff to make Slackware and RH work) I'd give
it a try to integrate it into a Debian boot.

*
t

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