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Re: [BlinDIA] feedback mini iso test: problems

Aldo
Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:29:18 -0700

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:04:04PM +0200, Philip Richardson wrote:
> Le mardi 06 juin 2006 à 11:29 +0200, Aldo a écrit :
> > I have tried our mini iso;
> > 
> > the brltty driver got a problem:
> >  Cannot open screen device: /dev/vcsa: No such file or directory
> >  Creating screen device: /dev/vcsa: mode=020600 major=7 minor=128
> Yes the device is created dynamically.

Yes but no matter, I only see my cursor hanging in the air after that 
message, nothing more to read, no prompt etc; only if I do alt+f2 I am 
able to open a new console. 
I have to try it again with text26.

> > There is also a brltty error message who is already corrected by Samuel 
> > Thibault for Debian; maybe you build again the mini iso based on that 
> > iso, so it resolve maybe 2 problems in 1 shot?
> Samuel's mini.iso is also a pure debian-installer.
Yes.

> The only difference, is the version.
> We use the Sarge DI and Samuel's on is in Etch version.

So we have to fix then the problem ourselve on our Stable iso.

> All packages, including brltty are parts of the debian-installer.
Ah, ok.
 
> > I also noticed:
> > - I miss cfdisk on it when I read the pkg list,
> It seems possible to make it work with cfdisk but we need more
> enquiries.
Anyway, no matter if we can't do that for the moment, we can still do 
cfdisk partitioning from within Grml or Knoppix. Isn't it?

> > - and can you fit then our blindia-installer-0.2.2.sh on it so that we 
> > no longer need to get it from another place, hd or site?
> > (at that point you hadn't any internet connection because no detection 
> > nor installation is started.
> It will be the third alternative. The Blindia-live-cd. Be online in the
> following weeks !
Yes, maybe as we said by phone: with blindia...sh as default installer, 
and the d-i as alternate.
 
> Just for recall, for the moment our primary goal is to provide several
> ways to install a Debian Sarge Distribution ( It's the one we use ). 
Yes.

>We
> have now :
> 
> The first one, launching the grml script within a live cd ( grml or
> knoppix ).
> The second one, using the official debian installer modified for a
> braille reader.
> The third ( to come ), a blindia live-cd with the script and the
> packages includes.
Sounds wonderful; but let's fix some small things on the mini iso before 
launching the 3rd chapter.
 
> After ? no limits if it can help some one ! 
> Maybe seeking also other distributions ? But help needed !
Well, until now we only have worked around braille ... There is also a 
speech problem under Gnu/Linux, so there will be for sure things to do, 
but we can take our time to do them in a good way, easy, practical, 
userfriendly, as we did for the braille part.
 
> Philip
Aldo.



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