Re: Elementary question

Hi all and thanks for the three answers.

Didier Spaier mardi 04 novembre à 21:58
> Hi,
> 
> On 04/11/2014 20:17, Alan Hicks wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Nov 2014 16:58:01 +0100
> > Philippe Delavalade <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Being blind, I first want to know if installation is accessible, that
> >> is to say, does brltty is part of the packages? I didn't found it in
> >> the list of the packages (slackware64) but maybe I'm wrong? I'd like
> >> to install by myself without the help of a sighted person. Somewhere
> >> (but I cann't remember where) I saw that speakup was present but I
> >> don't know if it speak french...
> >
> > I'm not sure what's involved in installing Slackware using speakup, but
> > I do recall speaking to Pat about it once. As I recall, he mentioned
> > something about setting the TTY to point to your serial port, and
> > plugging in your speech synthesizer to that port. From that point on,
> > Slackware could be installed by blind people unassisted. He was quite
> > proud of that ability. Since Slackware's installation is text-based
> > using dialog, installation _should_ be easier by the blind by default.

The problem is that I have no speech synthetiser ; I use to work with
braille via brltty.

> > The Slackware installer is written exclusively in English, so you're
> > stuck with that language.

Reading english is not a problem, listening is more difficult but possible.

> Yes, but as pointed out by Willy in his answer to Philippe, this is not
> the case for the Slint installers that are polyglot (I'm guilty of the
> translation to French beyond the internationalization so Philippe,
> merci de corriger mes fautes si possible).

OK, I'll look at it.

> Information in French about Slint for end users is mostly here:
> http://slint.fr/fr/index.html
> http://slint.fr/fr/installer.html
> http://slint.fr/fr/package.html
> 
> Direct links to slint installers for Slackware 14.1:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/slint/files/14.1/slint64-14.1-full.iso/download
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/slint/files/14.1/slint-14.1-full.iso/download

Tnanks.

> After booting, to get an installation in French just type the two digits
> code 06 then press Enter.
> 
> I would be really interested in a feedback about usability of Slint
> installers for blind people and needed enhancements of the installers as
> well as of our web site http://slint.fr to increase that usability, so by
> so feel free to email me at following address:
> didier dot spaier at slint dot fr.

IMHO, the best improvement should be to integrate brltty and a boot command
to make it work. This is the case with some distributions as debian or
grml. It was the case with the livecd of LFS 6.3 a long time ago...

> > You _may_ be able to use brltty though. When the installer boots, it
> > loads a tiny linux distribution in RAM. You could try installing brltty
> > in that ramdisk. You would need to mount the cd somewhere (I recommend
> > creating a directory like /tmpmnt and putting it there, since the
> > installer uses /mnt itself), then just install it with
> > installpkg /path/to/brltty-package. If there are not unresolved
> > dependencies, I suspect it would simply work.

yes, I can try this but it means I must have some help beside me, it is
easy but I'd prefer to do everything alone).

> > Not sure how you will get around the English-only nature of the
> > Slackware installer.

With braille, this is not a problem.

Another idea should be to customize the iso but is it possible and more, I
think I cann't do this by myself, I should need help.

And does slackware works with gpt partitions ?

Once more, many thanks.

-- 
Ph. Delavalade