Well, LFS was perhaps not exactly what I was looking for yet. What I meant by "clean" was that I don't want any software speech or Emacs/peak/ desktops installed from the beginning. Just the plain old bash and nothing else so that I can customize as I want from there.
Thank you for offering to hack an ISO. I'm a little bit interested in Slackware, but I will stick with RedHat 7.3 for now (installed it yesterday, because I know that installation works). I guess that the newest Slackware has USB support, right? I might need that for my Braille Voyager on the destkop computer later on.
Kindest Regards, /DAvid R. At 08:42 2004-03-25 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Nigel! > >Seems interesting, but unfortunately that's not what I'm looking for, i.e= >.=20 >I want a clean installation and absolutely no Emacspeak crap... I'm a=20 >braille user, you know... :-) No seriously, the main problem is that I=20 >want a real installation and not just a bootable CD.
If you want a real installation with no crap use LFS or slackware. Gentoo is also good. I can get you a bootable CD which can be used to build LFS since I'm working on getting accessibility built into that project because blind people have the right to have a way to do a clean install of Linux too and using an existing distro to build linuxfromscratch is not very good since you still have to chuck the old distro afterwords. It's a lot of work but it may be what you're looking for. Take a peek at wwww.linuxfromscratch.org, www.slackware.com and www.gentoo.org. Those are the homepages of linuxfromscratch, slackware and gentoo. Unfortunately none of those include BRLTTY but knoppix does so you can install gentoo from that and LFS can be built from knoppix though I'd recommend an LFS boot CD. If you let me know what braille display you have and you want to build one of these then I wil hack up an ISO and put it somewhere for you to grab.
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