On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 02:32:17AM +0200, Klaus Knopper wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 06:24:57PM -0400, S. Massy wrote: > > I moved away from Knoppix after the switch to SBL and > > ADRIANE because I just couldn't seem to get a plain console with braille > > support, which was a pity, as Knoppix was/is a great live distribution. > > Since Knoppix 5.x, I always make a special edtion of the Knoppix CD ISO > files which starts speech and braille in textmode automatically without > having to type anything at the boot prompt, so it's easy to get started. > These images have "ADRIANE" in their file name. For the other editions, > you would have to start with "adriane" as boot option. > > The "plain test console" without the ADRIANE-typical dialog-based text > menu, which you are looking for, can be reestablished by disabling the > menu in /etc/inittab.adriane. But you could as well just select the > "Shell" menu item to get a bash. The dialog menu is supposed to give you > shortcuts to your favourite programs like text web browser, mutt, file > manager etc., and can be reconfigured by creating configuration files in > the .adriane directory, so you can have your personal programs in the > menu instead of the default. Thanks. Last contact I had with ADRIANE/Knoppix I had little luck, but that was with the first release. I was in need of a live CD to rescue a system at the time and so had little time or patience to get things working and just reverted to an earlier version of Knoppix. I'll give it a shot again some time.
> > ADRIANE was designed in order to provide an easy start to beginners who > don't know much about computers or Linux, and who rather want to work > with applications directly than learning how to use the shell. Most As such, it probably does a very good job of it and likely deserves better exposure as a means of offering live accessibility to inexperienced users. Cheers, S.M. _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
