Andor Demarteau <ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl> writes: > while this method no doubt works (I'll have a look at it, seems > interesting enough). > I'd advice against using woody for first-install just yet. I've done it many times (with help for interactive stuff) and hadn't any trouble. Better, I was wondering about installing the "unstable" version, but it implies more risks doesn't it ? > It still is in the testing-stage. > I have successfully installed debian via brltty-enabled root.bin on 2 > floppies using the potato distro. > Be sure to note that the default root.bin is a compressed ext2-filesystem. > > It may seem that the woody-root.bin has more data in it then the > potato-version. Sure : in woody floppies, there is support for choosing language (among other things) > If this is not the case (you have to unpack and mount both via loopback to > check that), then brltty will certainly fit inside it. How to "unpack" ? Because the .bin files don't seam to be mountable via loopback (I tried but autofs wasn't enoubh to find what fs it was) > Note that make install directly to the image will NOT work. That's my problem :-) (main one) > Best is to install a staticly-linked brltty on yoru system and use > install-brltty script. > If this is not possible, copy the files by hand ;) to /sbin /lib/brltty > and /etc/brltty (creat the last 2 dirs by hand as well) and don't forget > to creaqte /dev/vcsa0 ;) So, I do this on mounted floppies, don't I ? > then edit /etc/init.d/rcS to include /sbin/brltty the same ? > now, are the files you load from the 3rd disk loaded into memory (ramdisk) > or directly executed from the floppy? > In the last case you will run into trouble if you need to insert the > rescue-disk for installing the kernel and stuff. The first thing seams better to me, but it is not the default - so how would I do this (loading 3rd floppy stuff in ramdisk) ? Because I don't need to give floppy for install except in the last steps where you have to do a boot-floppy (I can't make lilo write to the MBR). But it will ask for floppy during the whole process ? I mean, wouldn't the brltty executable and config files be mounted in memory "normally" (preventing from many I/O getting the system slower) ? > also note that you'd better create /dev/vcsa0 on the root.bin itself > already. Ok : I'll create this everywhere :-) > -- > slainte mhaith (good health), slainte (cheers) > Uisce Beatha (water of live/health) > ----------- > Andor Demarteau E-mail: ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl > student computer science www: http://www.students.cs.uu.nl/~ademarte/ > Utrecht University irc: see webpage for details > ----------- > Believe in yourself, know what you want, and make it happen! > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list Thank you regards, Boris