Hi all. The first thing I did was to format two floppy disks, and create a dos_fs on one of the disks. This disk would be the rescue disk. I then compiled a kernel with Cvs speakup, BLK_DEV_LOOP, BLK_DEV_RAM, and asorted filesystems. I then coppied the kernel to the dos-formatted floppy, as well as system.map, and syslinux.cfg. Before copying system.map though, I gzip -c -9 System.map > sys_map.gz. This was to save space on the disk. After copppying all the files, I did syslinux /dev/fd0. This created ldlinux.sys. Now to the root floppy. For that disk, it didn't require any modifications (this may change due to module problems). I took the bf24.bin from the official Woody distribution, decompressed it, and re-compressed with gzip -c -9 for maximum compression. I then dd if=bf24.bin of=/dev/fd0 to a blank floppy. After all this was done, I tested the setup. Everything seemed to work ok. I went through some of the installation steps, however the only part I dind't test was module installation. After all testing was completed, dd if=/dev/fd0 of=root.bin. > I'd be interested in the process you used to create the debian installers as > well. > Last time I checked when trying to get the boot-floppies package I had trouble > getting the system to send it to me and even tried getting the src package for > it and building that so it wouldn't work. > For handling the different kernels though what I did was go get the kernel > source tree from the debian site, untared the file, patcked it with speakup, > retared it and when the different images were being built the config files that > were used didn't have speakup in them so I was able to answer all the speakup > questions so this is how I came up with the kernel-image packages when I did the > installers for Potato some time ago. > Then what I did was copy the generated .deb files in to place so that the > boot-floppies build process would extract the kernels out of those packages and > put the in to place in to the different install images. > > Tommy > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
