Re: Help with installation
Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 07:31:03PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> monty_debian@bc.cx writes:
>>
>> > I've been following the debian-amd64-howto and have elected to install the
>> > distro via the chroot method as I have a brand new machine with a blank
>> > hdd plus I need to boot with a custom 64-bit kernel because I need the
>> > kernel to have the Speakup screen reader compiled in. (I'm blind)
>>
>> Hi, I think you are the first blind person on debian-amd64.
>>
>> For the i386 Debian-Installer there is an "access floppy" image for
>> blind people. I'm not sure what that entails (does it have speakup?)
>> but it would be good if you could test it and report back.
>
> access and speakup are 2 different things. There are floppies
> for both, and it's currently only available on floppy on i386.
Sorry, I only saw one of them on the D-I status page for i386 and
assumed wrong.
>> Building something based on that for amd64 shouldn't be too hard if
>> you are willing and able.
>
> Note that we currently do not have floppies at all because of
> size issues. However, I think it should be possible to have
> it available in other images.
The hart part is getting the udebs. I'm fairly certain floppy size
would be a drag but thats trivial to avoid. It is easy enough to make
a 3MB initrd (or whatever it takes) and use it on a bootcd with a
ElTorrito HD image just like we do for the normal images.
> Do we actually have a driver for that in the kernel, or do we
> need some special patch? It seems that i386 only has it with a
> 2.4 kernel too.
That would be a showstoper then. I don't think pure64 runs with kernel
2.4.x anymore.
MfG
Goswin
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