Sheesh, how did I forget grml? I have it on a stick sitting in my desk drawer. And, it came with Speakup already in the iso image. John G. Heim writes: > It was for stuff like this that we created the International Association of > Visually Impaired Technologists. The #1 problem we sought to address is > that there's knowledge out there on how to do this kind of thing but it > resides in the head of individuals scattered about cyberspace. > > Would you be willing to write a blog or a wiki entry about this for the > IAVIT web site? Maybe we could put out a bootable image with most of the > work already done. > > BTW, grml just released a new version for testing today. I've been planning > on putting out a fork of grml that has a kernel patched for speakup and > hardware synths and a few other niceties for the blind. But there are only > so many hours in the day. > > On 10/09/14 15:52, Chris Brannon wrote: > >Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > >>What about a full computer on a USB stick? Boot the stick then start the > >>main machine drive as a vm. Am I crazy? I think not. > > > >Not at all. William Hubbs and I did this a couple of months ago, in > >order to figure out why he couldn't boot from the Linux on his hard > >drive. I'm not sure which one of us came up with the idea, but I talked him > >through the process of booting his physical hard drive as a VM image > >under qemu running in a live CD environment. The long and the short was > >that he was able to read the boot messages, so the problem was diagnosed > >and fixed in short order. > > > >-- Chris > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf Indie UI http://www.w3.org/WAI/IndieUI/ _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
