April 2010 release of the TalkingArch CD

[Chris Brannon]

Michael Whapples wrote:
> As I am planning (its finding the time) to re-record my install 
> tutorials I will probably cover these.

Great!  I still need to document the brltty stuff in my wiki article.
Basically, you can have braille support at boot by adding the brltty
parameter at the boot prompt.
The brltty parameter consists of three comma-separated fields:
driver, device, and table.
E.G., to have the driver automatically detected, using a braille display
on the first serial port, with the US English text table, we'd enter this
command at the boot prompt:
arch brltty=auto,ttyS0,en_US
Of course, brltty can also be started after boot, from the shell.

> The question is, you've removed 
> two of the advantages of the GRML install, how much value might there be 
> in redoing the GRML installation of Arch?

Yes, the two main advantages are gone.  I'm sorry for not doing this sooner!
There's less need for the "install from grml" approach now.
But perhaps it's still nice to know, as a stand-by method.

> * Wireless with GRML may be easier, I can't remember if the Arch install 
> CD has wireless, but grml-network is really good for setting up the network.

It does have wireless.  If you want WPA, you'll have to write a
wpa_supplicant.conf file.
That's not hard, unless you have a complex wireless setup.

> * GRML may support more soundcards (I mean as well as drivers, I mean it 
> may unmute more correctly).

Maybe.  However, my unmute script is basically the same alsa startup script
used on the Debian-based distros.
You can look at it on the CD.  The path is
/etc/rc.d/livecdsound.

> * If you like reading docs, etc while installing or may want other 
> tools, GRML has lots of great stuff on the CD.

Yes, grml provides a very nice live environment.

-- Chris