Robert Millan wrote: > syslinux supports beeping (by printing ^G or with the .beep command specified > in menu/MENU_FORMAT). If d-i beeps (once or even a few times) when the boot > prompt is presented, that helps a lot. If it beeps a few seconds before the > time runs out, that also helps. > > I think this makes it even better than what we have now (since user doesn't > really know if she waited enough or not). But of course, input from a blind > person on this would be more interesting. Beeping could work.. > Well, not really. Typing "auto\n" enables Tagalog, and "<foo> auto=true\n" > enables English. But I get the point ;) It went to Esperanto from English in my tests. :-) > How big is that datacenter anyway? I can't imagine your "monkey" being so > slow not to be back there in 5 minutes. It's a realistic scenario for the he.net datacenter. They couldn't hear beeps either, FWIW, it's like a jet engine in there. -- see shy jo
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