sarge installer and status of text install with brltty and/or speakup
Maybe there's a more appropriate list on which to post this but I and
several other people have posted this to debian-accessibility and gotten
no information. I've also gone through the debian-accessibility archives
and the information there didn't answer my questions.
1. Is there built-in provision for using brltty and/or speakup with the
present version of the sarge installer?
2. Can this be done using the netinst cd and if so, are there instructions
somewhere for doing so?
3. I do see that there are "access" drivers.img, boot.img and
root.img for i386 installer, but I see no
instructions for using them and don't know if they are to enable brltty,
speakup or either one of the above. I would much prefer to use cdrom
anyway, as the floppies don't always seem to work for me on either
of my computers. Maybe I need new floppies.
The last time I reinstalled I ended up using a woody cd, switching to the
shell after boot, taring a dd'd-to-floppy tar ball of brltty on to the
installation
root system,
invoking brltty and then invoking dbootstrap so I could have a text
install. A bit of a complicated approach but it worked, except then I had
to upgrade to get to sarge and eventually I upgraded clear to sid. But it
doesn't appear that this approach will work with the sarge installer.
If anybody has recently done a sarge install with brltty or speakup and
can tell me how you did it, or if anybody can tell me where to find the
latest information on this, I would very much appreciate it.
Thanks.
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
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