-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I just bought an small via epia board which i want to utilize as firewall together with 2 other NiCs in an small travla case by using the ipcop-Software (special linux-distribution). I must for the ipcop to be installed change the instroot.gz image on the iso and rebuild it so that the statically linked brltty which i chosed for my device is also contained in the iso. Here is some suggestions from the developers of the ipcop-devel mailinglist at sourceforge which i stricktly followed. ============================================================================ ======================================= What i suggest : mount the iso somewhere (/tmp/iso/) create a directory for example in /tmp/ipcop-brltty/ copy the entire iso in this directory : cp -a /tmp/iso/* /tmp/ipcop-brltty/ Cd in /tmp/ipcop-brltty/boot/isolinux/ and gunzip instroot.gz. Then mount instroot somewhere : mount -o loop instroot /tmp/instroot . Instroot has 986ko free space, I hope it is enough to put brltty static binary. Put brltty in bin/ (in my example) /tmp/instroot/bin/ . Then move bin/install to bin/install2 . Create a little bash-script with the name bin/install : #!/bin/ash /bin/brltty -d device -b driver -c table /bin/install2 /dev/tty2 Then umount /tmp/instroot/ gzip /tmp/ipcop-brltty/boot/isolinux/instroot Recreate the iso with mkisofs. This sould work : cd /tmp/ipcop-brltty/ mkisofs -o ../ipcop-brltty.iso -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot/isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table . burn ipcop-brltty.iso and try ! ============================================================================ ======================================= The only difference in the /bin/install script i made were, that for the statically linked brltty i left out the -b -d and -c options. So when i went after what the developer said, i had an iso with a little bigger instroot.gz in its boot/isolinux directory because in the filesystem of the instroot i put the brltty in the /bin directory. But unfortunately after burning and booting the iso nothing appeared on my braille-device, and when i got some sighted assistance i found out that the screen-output of the brltty is rather usual, regarding the driver being loaded and that there is no speech-support available, so the screen-output didn't give me any errors, but still there was no braille available under my fingers. I am sure that i have connected the device to the right serial port since knoppix works great with the appropriate knoppix-cheatcodes.txt file on my boot-floppy. Also as i had mounted the file-system of instroot i searched for /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/vcsa and both of them i could find using the ls-command, and also the kernel does include the (CONFIG_SERIAL=y) option. I must add, relying on the infos of the developers, that in this context some inodes where not created when building the kernel and instroot filesystem, and that the ipcop 1.4 release is an lfs-based one. I also thought of hacking the boot-floppies and since brltty doesn't fit on the 1st disk even in it's smallest static size available i thought of hacking the boot-floppy to require another from where it can load it's brltty, just to keep the waste of empty cds in it's limit. Can anyone help me please to track this problem down, since i just successfully installed debian using static brlttys and had no problems at all to get this working? Any help is appreciated, and if you want me to include more correspondence from the developers with me, just tell me. Thanks and best Regards, Attila. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.94 iD8DBQFAlf5KTgNfLOyb+zkRAs6xAJwNpUDLN3IkUh58ZeCBaTfOJ7IK4wCgi2Dy JAAowLA5byZkl/wvCLCLBpc= =CJAG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list