Hello! Thanks alot for your work! I'll try it right now! I just had a look at the root filesystem of the disk. I think, it could be expanded to work with all braille terminals by putting brltty on a seperate disk: On the homepage of brltty you can download prepared binaries for all the different braille displays. Someone, who doesn't have a running Linux could still copy one of those binaries on a DOS disk with Windows, and the init-script could do something like echo Insert disk with brltty. read ret mount /floppy cp /floppy/brltty /sbin chmod ugo+x /sbin/brltty /sbin/brltty echo You can remove the disk. read ret I did such modifications to the old install system. Yours, Rudolf On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:40:08PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello. > > As some of you perhaps know, debian is rewriting its > installer system completely new. I've done some brltty > integration work, and here is the first easily testable > result: > > http://gluck.debian.org/~mlang/net-brl-ht-ts-1440.img > > Disclaimer: > > First of all, this is an alpha version of > the debian-installer, so you should expect problems. > > Introduction: > - ------------- > > It was quite hard to fit all on one floppy (kernel+initrd), > so I had to do some modifications by hand (pack > kernel with upx, and delete all brltty modules > except ht and ts). > > > Which displays should work: > > HandyTech and TSI family displays. > The choice was simply made because I have > a ht and a ts model around... > > > How to use: > - ------- > > Get the image, and write it to disk: > dd if=net-brl-ht-ts-1440.img of=dev/fd0 > > Then get some computer you want to try this on... > Boot up the PC with the floppy inserted. > > At the Boot: prompt (careful, its only 5 seconds > displayed right now), enter > > Linux BRLTTY_BRAILLE_DRIVER=xx > > where xx is the module shortcut, like ts or ht. > > The default device is /dev/tts/0. SO if you connect > your display to com1, you should be fine. > > > > I just wanted to get this out there for interested > folks to play with, please let me know if you > have any questions. But keep in mind that this > is far from production-quality software, its all very > much under development right now. > > - -- > CYa, > Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> > | Get my public key via finger mlang@db.debian.org > | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> > > iD8DBQE992oD3/wCKmsRPkQRAqJDAJ0dBnXvGWj2Y40VmSf7/xLu3gYY6gCeMwtR > ZsLA0yiq69IONwDktFz9xnI= > =Z457 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Rudolf Weeber Mühlrain 9 70180 Stuttgart / Germany Tel: 0711 62009381 Email: rudolf.weeber@gmx.de _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list