From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 14453 invoked from network); 29 Jun 1998 08:41:47 -0000 Received: from mail.spin.ch (194.209.46.6) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Jun 1998 08:41:47 -0000 Received: from localhost (tpo2@localhost) by mail.spin.ch (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id KAA01780; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:42:03 +0200 Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:42:03 +0200 (CEST) From: "T's Mailing Lists" To: Nicolas Pitre cc: Martin Courcelles , blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: alve boot disk for debian In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tomas Pospisek - Freelance: Linuxing, Networking http://spin.ch/~tpo/freelance www.SPIN.ch - Internet Services in Graubuenden/Switzerland WANTED: sysadmin-> http://spin.ch/~tpo/joboffer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------