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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: "John J. Boyer" <director@chpi.org>
Cc: Dave Mielke <dave@mielke.cc>, <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Accessibility of Redhat 7.2
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:23:20 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111161511230.3237-100000@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01b501c16ed1$c65405a0$e08caad8@tds.net>

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Nicolas,
> Nice to see you on this list. I've just been reading the brltty manual. I
> also downloaded the complete brltty package, but what do you know. I'm
> having trouble getting Windows to decompress it, even though the beast
> claims that it can do so.

The BRLTTY manual might be lacking behind I'm afraid.

Once you can get inside the archive, you'll find all the instructions on how 
to create BRLTTY enabled installation bootdisks in the /bootdisks 
subdirectory.  You should then be able to boot with the floppy and go on 
with the installation using the CD afterwards.

I think Dave Mielke (the current BRLTTY maintainer) had plans about putting 
BRLTTY enabled floppy images on his website.  Maybe you could try to ping 
him about that.

> Thanks for all your answers and for your work on brltty. It is very
> important for those of us who are deaf as well as blind.

Keep the faith!


Nicolas


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nicolas Pitre" <nico@cam.org>
> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 14:30
> Subject: Re: Accessibility of Redhat 7.2
> 
> 
> > On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > I've just been looking at the Redhat site. They make a lot of the GUI in
> > > Redhat 7.2. It uses Gnome 1.4. I assume the GUI is inaccessible for now.
> > > Can it do anything that you can't do in console mode?
> >
> > Probably.  I never suffered from that yet though.
> >
> > > Is the Mozilla browser usable in console mode?
> >
> > No.  However there are two alternatives that work in text mode:
> > lynx and links (note the spelling).
> >
> > > I will have to start my installation with a floppy, since I can't boot
> from
> > > my cd-rom. Does the disk set that Redhat sells for $60 include an
> > > installation boot floppy?
> >
> > Don't know.  However you can find the floppy image and the tools to write
> it
> > from DOS on the CD itself as well as on RedHat's FTP site.
> >
> > > Can I add brltty to that floppy so I can have
> > > Braille output as soon as possible?
> >
> > Certainly.  See the BRLTTY distribution for instructions.
> >
> >
> > Nicolas
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> 
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 John J. Boyer
 ` Nicolas Pitre
   ` John J. Boyer
     ` David Poehlman
       ` John J. Boyer
         ` Dave Mielke
     ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
   ` Janina Sajka
     ` John J. Boyer
   ` L. C. Robinson
     ` John J. Boyer
 ` Janina Sajka
 ` Dave Hunt
   ` John J. Boyer
     ` Georgina
       ` John J. Boyer
         ` Georgina
       ` Brent Harding

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