William Hubbs wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 07:32:18PM -0500, Dale wrote: > >> > > For a person on dial-up, about 2 1/2 hours of additional download. That > > said, I'd be OK with the increase in size if it would help a person who > > can't see the screen. > > It is impossible for a person who can't see the screen to install gentoo > linux from our current release media unless they do what I did, which > was to have someone read the screen to me long enough to assist me with > starting an ssh server on the livecd and figure out the IP address of > the computer, so that I could ssh in from my second computer to do the > install. > > In other words, putting this software on our media will not just > help, but make it possible for a blind person to install gentoo > independently. > > Only adding the software to the live cd is not an option for me, because > I feel that all of our release media should be accessible. Yes, there > will be a size increase for the release media, but, unless the alsa > modules and alsa-utils are over 15 mb, it will not be a 20 mb increase. >
Maybe I am being misunderstood. I'm all for it even if it does make it bigger. It's a good idea in my opinion. Dale :-) :-)
