At one point, I actually had a basic Gentoo system which was designed so
that you could run the CD, then partition drives and use rsync to copy
the content of the CD over to the hd and have a brand new system there.
Speakup was built-in to that, and I tested it and it worked perfectly. I
used to use it for fast deployments of new Linux machines; about 15
minutes to deploy a new system. Just boot the CD, partition/create lvm
groups if you wanted, create file systems, mount, copy rootfs contents,
chroot in and delete two CD-specific packages, install boot loader to
MBR, then reboot and you're done. I had a catastrophic crash a couple
years ago, which coupled with a user error (mine) destroyed the build
environment for that and it's backup. Since I was the only one using
it, I never bothered to recreate it. If I thought there was a market for
such a thing, I'd probably recreate it and distribute it. Gentoo
declined so much in popularity though that I didn't figure anyone in the
Linux community was likely to be interested.
Joe
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