No Adriane-Knoppix images for 7.4.x?
Good Evening,
First, let me say that Adriane has been an absolute lifesaver, not
only allowing me to regain use of a computer following retinal
detachment in my one good eye, but providing a blind man's OS that
doesn't require the assistence of a sighted person to set-up.
That said, the absence of official images of 7.4.x that boot into
Adriane by default is concerning, especially since my 7.2.0 Adriane
disc is really starting to show it's age. I know there is a cheat code
to make the DVD boot into Adriane mode, and while this might be
acceptable for blind users who have the assistance of a sighted person
who is sufficiently competent with computers, I am not so fortunate. I
know the Adriane images are normally based on the CD version, which
has been discontinued/put on a sparser release schedule due to a poor
benefit-to-effort ratio, but even a Adriane DVD would be preferable to
no Adriane images at all.
If you deem rebuilding the Knoppix DVD to boot in Adriane by default
as to much work for too little benefit(Afterall, blind computer users
are a rarity to begin with and blind power users lacking a competent
assistant among the sighted are rarer still), I am willing to do the
work myself if anyone could provide me with the guidance to avoid
another coaster. My previous attempt at building an Adriane DVD of
7.4.1 went something like this:
1. Downloaded the image via bittorrent.
2. mounted the image using mount's loop option.
3. Copied the contents to a directory on my hard drive because mount
refuses to mount the image in read-write mode.
4. Used chmod to change permissions because cp preserved the read-only
permissions.
5. edit the default auto line near the top of
/boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg(one of the few files that differes between
the standard and adriane versions of the 7.2.0 cd) to default adriane.
6. Rebuilt the image using genisoimage.
7. burnt the image to DVD with wodim.
8. Tried booting the disc, computer gives an "insert bootable disc" eror.
Best I can reember, the failed boot was the first time I got an errors.
On a related note, does anyone know if any efforts have been made to
port Adriane upstream to Debian or of hard drive-targetted distros
that attempt something similiar to Adriane? As much as I love Adriane,
a live-only distribution really doesn't fit my needs, and running
Knoppix from a hard drive makes me miss being able to run distros
designed to be installed to hard drive.
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Sincerely,
Jeffery Wright
President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa.
Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the Albemarle.
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