speakup and gentoo kernels

[Steve Holmes]

Well, I was thinking of keeping the CD image but just create a boot disk
that could jump start the machine and then map to a CD ROM drive to run the
system.  I plan to do something similar to the slackware live CD and make it
a talking boot disk at that.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Deedra Waters" <dmwaters at gentoo.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: speakup and gentoo kernels


> Hi!
>
> Gentoo doesn't have any floppy images, and I don't really know how easy it
would be to turn that livecd into floppies. The iso itself is almost 80mb.
That means a lot of floppies. If any of those boxes already have a distro on
them, and you have a spare partision on the drive, you could set up the
install in a chroot, and then move it over to the main partision. That's how
I did my first install. In some ways, that was nicer because it was a
learning experience, (and I didn't have any livecd's then.)
>
> Other people have told me that you can use other distro floppies to start
a gentoo install, but there are some tools that you definitly need, and I
don't know of any distro floppies that have all of those tools.
>
>
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> > How easy would it to be to create floppy boot images to launch this live
CD?
> > I would need to build floppies so I could boot from my older machines
that
> > cannot boot directly from CD.
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Deedra Waters" <dmwaters at gentoo.org>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 11:26 AM
> > Subject: Re: speakup and gentoo kernels
> >
> >
> > > Alex, it's a bit of both. Basically what the livecd does is give you a
> > mini os so to speak so that you can  install gentoo. It provides you
with
> > the ability to ssh if you need to, provides youw ith links for a web
> > browser, an irc client, and a couple of other things that you may need.
What
> > I also like about this is that I can boot the cd on a machine, set the
root
> > password, and start ssh. From there, I can  ssh into the box I just
booted,
> > and do the install remotely if I choose.
> > >
> > > You can find gentoo instructions here:
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
> > > The docs do not tell you how to get the speakup kernel to  boot, from
what
> > I've been told,  once it's conciddered stable, then they will include a
> > small section on how to get the cd to boot with speakup. I've done about
6
> > or 8 installs with this lived, heh, so I can tell you how to get it
ggoing
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Alex Snow wrote:
> > >
> > > > so is this the actual install cd or is this just a live bootable cd?
> > > > On
> > > > Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:58:47AM -0600, Deedra Waters wrote:
> > > > > Hi guys!
> > > > >
> > > > > As I mentioned before, speakup is nowin the gentoo install cd's
> > (livecd's) Current  it is in the x86 experimental livecd.
> > > > >
> > > > > Also last night speakup was  patched into the 'gentoo-dev-sources'
> > kernel. If things go as planned, this kernel will eventually become the
> > standard gentoo-sources kernel.
> > > > >
> > > > > This is a 2.6.0 kernel patched with the  latest speakup cvs patch.
> > >From what I can tell, it works very nicely.
> > > > >
> > > > > If any of you are using gentoo, or want to use it, please give me
any
> > feedback that you may have on the kernel or livecd.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks!
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > -- 
> > > > > Gentoo Linux: Gentoo infrastructure, dmwaters at gentoo.org,
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> > > > >
> > > > > Freenode staff member: dmwaters at freenode.net ,
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> > > > >
> > > > >
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