Speakup-enabling recovery or administrative distributions

[Janina Sajka]

Yes, I like grml for this kind of work, and for rescuing trashed
systems. My working grml is currently a usb stick.

Janina

Gregory Nowak writes:
> Hi. As far as systemrescuecd goes, all you would probably need to do
> is to include sound modules in the kernel, and install
> espeakup/alsa-utils like Kyle already said. Systemrescuecd is
> gentoo-based. There is a chapter on customizing systemrescuecd in the
> systemrescuecd manual:
> 
> http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_personalize_SystemRescueCd
> 
> It's unfortunate that we don't have software speech in
> systemrescuecd. Francois insists that including sound modules and
> alsa-utils would make the iso too big, and he wants to keep it to a
> minimum. Since grml does what I need it to do so far, I've switched to
> using that on systems without serial ports, and haven't considered
> forking systemrescuecd, since I personally had no need to do so. Hope
> that helps somewhat.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 04:43:23PM -0500, Techswing33 wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm wanting to use Speakup/Espeakup to enable speech in what are for
> > me now inaccessible circumstances.
> > 
> > The first is when using a distro for secure wiping a hard disk called
> > Derick's Boot and Nuke, DBAN. I've got a bunch of drives in both
> > personal and professional capacity that I need to securely erase prior
> > to sending them out.
> > 
> > The second circumstance is to enable speech on a distro called System
> > Rescue CD, for doing low level tasks on various Linux and Windows
> > boxes, resetting or clearing passwords, backing up partition
> > configurations, comes immediately to mind.
> > 
> > I'd like to remaster both of these distros, DBAN, and System Rescue
> > CD, with Speakup included. My emphasis will be software speech with
> > espeakup because I do not have a hardware synthesizer, so integrating
> > audio support would also be essential.
> > 
> > If anyone has done this i'd appreciate any help/pointers.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > Dave.
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> > 
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