Chris Brannon schrieb:
I'm new to Arch. The other day, I downloaded the ISO mentioned in the subject line. I remastered the image, because I needed some extra programs. I'm blind. I added a screenreader and a text-to-speech engine to the ISO, so that I could have spoken feedback during the install. I also added alsa-utils, alsa-lib, and a few miscellaneous packages.
I wonder whether we should have those packages on the CD by default. It is especially difficult for a blind person to use a computer, and we force you to remaster the image yourself before you can use it. Worth a thought.
For instance, after typing "ps" at the bash prompt, the system locked up. It was unable to load the ps executable or one of its shared libraries from the CD. Sometimes, it would print the message "input-output error", and return to a working bash prompt. I could hear my CD-ROM drive clicking whenever it tried to load the executable. It just sat there for five or more minutes, spinning and clicking.
The fact that your drive is making noises indicates that either the drive, the CD or the writer that wrote the CD are broken.
I also noticed that Arch is writing data to its unionfs. Most of the data seems to be written to /var/log. Should a live CD be writing to logfiles?
It is really useful. And it only uses a few KB of memory. I don't see it as a problem.
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