arthompson1...@gmail.com (Adam Thompson) writes: >As a long-time user of unix-like systems (primarily Linux, with a few others as >well) I'm interested in setting up a machine with NetBSD. However I'm blind >and >can't find any examples of either accessibility options in the installer or an >automated installation method wich isn't for Qemu or Xen.
Installation usually requires access to a console, and the default PC console is a physical keyboard and VGA display. I'm not aware of any easy solution to make that accessible and googling for BIOS access for blind people didn't reveal anything either. Some PCs have remote management support (e.g. ILO for HP servers or Intel AMT). But these usually provide some graphical user interface or web interface only. Nothing you could easily make accessible. So that leaves a serial console as a possibility. For this the PC needs a real serial port, a USB<->serial adapter is not enough. If you have a serial console you need an install CD that is configured for serial console. Or if you have a network, you can create a PXE boot server and configure the PXE bootloader to use a serial console. The installer works from a serial console. It does have a full screen display, nothing command like. But I think that is something you can use. Saying this. It's probably not much work to create a version of the install system that does a DHCP network configuration and starts sshd. Greetings, -- -- Michael van Elst Internet: mlel...@serpens.de "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."