OT: How to examine ISOS for clues to bootup process?

[Steve Holmes]

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Hi Debee,

You're absolutely right; every distro does it differently <sigh>.  I
also looked around in the isolinux directory with partial success.
You might also look at the syslinux.cfg or whatever it's called.  I
think there may be actually several cfg files in there to control the
boot process.  It would probably help to get a thurough understanding
of syslinux system.  I do not have such a knowledge either.  But also
one can look around in the /boot directory too but I believe most live
CDs and other installers boot with syslinux or isolinux.

What we really need is a wiki for speakup.  We have one for Orca and
it is filling out pretty well; it has a ways to go like any other
public document but anyone with the brains and experience can update
it with what they know.  We should do similarly with speakup; those of
us who use particular distros can write up how to use that distro to
boot into speakup.  Actually such fragments of the wiki or user
supported documentation should be supplied to the maintainers of the
respective distro.  Slackware has such documentation and so far is
still fairly current.  I frankly don't recall if Debian has such a
document in its collection.  I haven't looked.

Also, as you mentioned something about speakup.synth vs
speakup_synth.  It has officially changed to speakup.synth with the
most recent changes to a totally modular speakup.  So that style
parameter would be effective for Slackware, Debian and any other
distro where boot parms are supported.

HTH.
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