Re: speakup Debian installer; also booting from cdrom and adding brltty
last night I made a bootable cd from the accessible boot.img at
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/floppy/access since my
desktop computer's bios can be
made to boot either from cdrom or floppy but I can't change them back and
forth by myself. I then put the root floppy in when it was requested. by
doing this I found that both brltty and speakup do start up ok. However, I
ran into a problem; when I went to download installer components the
kernel modules couldn't be found and the suggested reason was that my
kernel didn't match the ones on the mirror. do I have to use a particular
mirror to get modules for the 2.4.27 speakup-enabled kernel? Or is it
possible I did something to cause a problem when I made the bootable cd; I
used the el Torrito method. I'd like to be able to put both root.img and
boot.img both on the cd but my attempts to change where the root files are
looked for haven't worked yet and I'm still reading up on isolinux. At any
rate, using the floppy with root.img appears to work for the time being.
I also have a second question. with woody, I am able to boot from the
cdrom and then use
tar xzf /dev/fd0
to copy brltty from a floppy disk image into the running root system. then
I can type
dbootstrap
and am able to continue with the install in text mode.
However, I can't do this with any of the sarge cds. I get "no such file or
directory" when I try to do the tar command using /dev/fd0. However, the
floppy is definitely being used for the root image and for loading
drivers. I do realize that the new installer is completely different
from the old one used with woody, but is there a way of accessing the
floppy deliberately from the
shell? I don't particularly want to mount the floppy but I need to be able
to untar the image that's on the floppy I have in what should be /dev/fd0.
If I could use the floppy from the shell to add brltty I could install
booting from debian cds without having to use any special access floppies
or cds unless I also wanted speakup--that is, if dbootstrap can still be
used.
Tia.
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
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