Jean-Philippe Mengual wrote:
I've a problem: I'm blind. Once the CD started, I'd like to mount a
disk, copy a braille program and run it. Before that, I have to write
a command. So, could someone tell me what is displayed on the screen
immediately after the CD starting? What do I have to do? Is it a
graphical mode?
Hi JP.
You may want to try the 6.0 version of the LFS LiveCD as that one had a
speakup enabled kernel that would output text to an audio device or
braille terminal. I got help with setting that up from another blind LFS
user, but unfortunately I've been out of contact with him lately and
this feature kind of slipped through on the last CD. So you could try
the lfslivecd-x86-6.0-1.iso and see if that works for you.
Otherwise, to use the current cd and mount the floppy disk you would
have to do the following:
Boot the CD and wait about 5-10 minutes to make sure the console has
come up, unless you have some other way of telling when it's done
booting. After that hit 'Enter' once to activate the console, you'll
then be at a root prompt. Then insert your floppy disk, and if your
floppy is a standard floppy drive and not, for example, an IDE floppy
drive, you would type 'mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy' After that you
should be able to 'cd /media/floppy' and run the program there.
Hope this helps! Also, now that I know there are still blind users who
would use the LiveCD perhaps we can try supporting the speakup and
braille terminals again in the near future...
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JH
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