Two out of three ain't bad
Reinhard Stebner
reinhard.stebner at gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 01:11:00 UTC 2007
How does it speak? Are you using speakup?
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From: blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of John Heim
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:51 AM
To: Linux for blind general discussion
Subject: Two out of three ain't bad
Well, I have my first very, very preliminary attempt at making a live rescue
disk done. Version 0.0.0.0.0.1. I was able to boot it on 2 of the 3
computers I tried. Two out of three ain't bad. It comes up speaking and I
was able to fdisk a hard drive with it. I'm not actually suggesting you try
it yet unless you are really, really desperate. But if you want to give it a
whirl, you can download the iso at
http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/stuff/cdrom.iso
You will have to log in as root with the password blindI. Note the capital
I.
The password is one idea I had for the name. My ideas for names:
1. blindI -- as in "blind install". It doesn't look as if blindi is a word
in any language so it would be easy to google.
2. marcol -- A guy who played for the Packers in the 70s. This happens to be
the name of the machine I started the project on
3. grmln -- It would be pronounced "gremlin". Also easy to google.
Actually, version 0.0.0.0.1 isn't based off grml. I made the iso via
bootcdwrite. But I am thinking going back to trying to modify the grml iso
might be smarter. I tried modifying my live CD from the "Fully Automated
Install" open source project. I'd already modified it to add speech. But it
boots off an NFS mounted root. I thought I could put the root on the CD
fairly easily but I couldn't figure that out. So that approach turned out
to be a dead end.
Advice, comments welcome.
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