Re: Elementary question

Hi Pilippe,

On 07/11/2014 18:36, Philippe Delavalade wrote:
 > Hi Didier.
 >
 > Didier Spaier mercredi 05 novembre à 22:40

 >> I'll try that and see what I come up with, then send you a link to a
 >> modified installer so you can test it.
 >
 > No hurry :-), I'm in a place where bandwidth is very small ; I 'll be 
in Paris
 > in two weeks and their, I'll have a good bandwidth.

Before working at it, I have cooked a Slint installer for Slackware 14.1
(64-bit x86_64) that uses syslinux 6.03 (not shipped yet in Slackware) for
booting in both BIOS and UEFI modes, that you can find in this directory:
http://slint.fr/testing/
http://slint.fr/testing/slint64-14.1_syslinux.6.03.img

But the time spent doing that is not lost for brltty, I think as as side
effect is to uniformize the booting sequence, regardless of the kind of
firmware (previously syslinux was used for booting in BIOS mode and grub
for booting in UEFI mode).

Anyhow, I'm done with that and shipping brltty in the installer comes next.

 >> I will need to include a test configuration. Could you please send 
me the
 >> file /etc/brltty.conf that you are currently using?
 >
 > yes ; just three lines :
 >
 > braille-driver    pm    # my driver is a Papenmeier
 > braille-device    usb:        # First USB device matching braille driver
 > text-table    fr_FR    # French (France)

Thanks.

 >> The installer would also need to be modified to install brltty in the
 >> target system as this is not the case of the default Slackware 
installer,
 >> that ships brltty in /extra (optional packages). and maybe include a
 >> basic configuration.
 >
 > Yes, but no idea about this basic configuration.

I'll propose it to you.
 >
 >> Could you send me links to other distributions' installers that 
already do
 >> that, like those of debian or grml? I could try them in a virtual 
machine.
 >
 > 1. ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/lfs-livecd/lfslivecd-x86-6.3-r2130.iso
 >
 >    This one is old but it was explain how to customize the iso so that is
 >    boots without doing nothing and have is own configuration. 
Overwise, the
 >    user has to type a boot command after the beep ; this command is 
of the
 >    form :
 >    linux brltty=code_of_the_braille_driver,devie,code_of_the_braille
 >    This must be done using an english keymap (the default but it is 
not so hard).
 >
 > 2. http://download.grml.org/grml64-full_2014.03.iso
 >
 >    If I remember correctly, after the beep of the boot, the command 
to give
 >    is sothing like :
 >    grml brltty=code_of_the_braille_driver,devie,code_of_the_braille
 >
 >    As for the LFS, it is explain how to customize the ISO for a USB stick
 >
 > 3. 
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-7.7.0-amd64-netinst.iso
 >
 >    For this one, I don't know if it is customable and the command 
after the
 >    beep is simply
 >
 >    brltty=code_of_the_braille_driver,devie,code_of_the_braille

Thanks for the links, I'll look at that now.

 > Many thanks.

You are welcome. I have to thank you for providing me a new challenge!

Cheers,
Didier