Accessible debian install CDs

[Michael Whapples]

Thanks,
I was really looking for software speech output and I think Samuel's CD 
was what I was thinking of. The only question is by using that how much 
control do I have on the boot manager? I am thinking of going with 
debian testing so that does mean grub2 if using the default. The options 
like GRML where I use debootstrap, I think I get more control about the 
boot manager.

Michael Whapples
On 02/10/2010 08:15 PM, trev.saunders at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
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> there's a couple options.
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> if you have a hard ware synth or braille display the stock debian install cd works fine.  This is documented in the debian install guide I believe.  for a hardware synth you need the graphical installer with the extra boot parameter speakup.synth=xxxx where xxxx is your what comes after the '_' in ythe speakup module.  I believe that braille displays just work through some plack magic in the boot loader, but I really don't know and haven't tested that.
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> if you need software speech in Samuel's home dir on people.debian.org there is a debian install cd that is experimental, but seemed to mostly work in kvm when I tried.  The only issue I had was that the capslock key didn't work with speakup in the vm.  I suspect the problem was that I 1 was yousing a laptop 2 had was working inside kvm.
> Alternatively you can use the vinux cd's on vinux.org.uk, installing vinux to hard drive secretly results in debian.  However I had trouble with cfdisk and ended up just using it as a live cd with which I ran debootstrap by hand and then performed some hacks that resulted in the system I am currently using which works fine I note.
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> for boot loaders debian stable still uses grub but if you want to run testing or newer you will need to deal with grub2 some how, you could just ignore the upgrade, or only install grub-legacy, or I believe lilo is still in the repository.
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> hope that helps
> Trev
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