I agree that grml should work well, however, I couldn't get apt-get update to work. It kept erroring out. -----Original Message----- From: Peter [mailto:lecky_lists@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 3:02 AM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: creating a speakup cli cd Kirk: Thanks for this information. Grml is great and perfectly enough others: thanks for all related information. Peter D?a 5. 2. 2013 22:11 Kirk Reiser wrote / nap?sal(a): > I think wanting to create this type of CD is admirable, however, the > grml rescue disks already have these items as far as I know. They are > designed as a rescue system and I have installed the last five or six > systems I've set-up with it. I'm not quite sure what you could > provide that isn't already part of grml. They have always been > accessibility friendly, right from their inception. > > I'd suggest at least burning one and learning about them before you > redesign a wheel. You could even get involved with helping them if > you find them useful. > > Once you boot the most recent all you do is modprobe speakup_soft > after the beedley-bop sound it makes to let one know it is finished > booting and them type espeakup to start the speech output. Very > simple. I'm sure it's just as simple to start brltty. Maybe even > easier. > > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Don Raikes wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I am starting work on a project to make a Speakup-enabled livecd that >> will boot to the console. >> >> >> >> The cd will be based on ubuntu precise and will include Speakup, >> espeakup and brltty for accessibility. >> >> Are there special parameters I need to pass to the kernel at boot to >> activate Speakup at start? >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at linux-speakup.org >> http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at linux-speakup.org http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup