Yes, when you boot the installer, I just did this Friday night and I have a braille note classic. Boot the disk, wait for it to stop spinning, then type this boot command
install brltty=bn,ttyS0,en_us that will get you going let me know if that doesn't but it did for me. Remember that I used a net install CD for Etch which by the way is terrible for up to date packages...but that should get you up and running. After your o/s is installed which btw the process is a piece of cake, your system will boot up from the hard drive and brltty will automatically start up with your braille note. When using the review commands on the braille note: dots 1 and 4 move the display by character, dots 2 and 5 move by line, which is all I needed to install. So I have my new Dell power edge server running debian 4.0 via terminal and a desktop with the same, but the gnome desktop and the latest orca didn't want to play nicely together so I'll have to find another distro to install so I can use both terminal and gui. Maybe Fedora, however I'll play around with it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Dalton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY." <brltty@mielke.cc>; "Linux for blind general discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 6:42 PM Subject: [BRLTTY] Booting the debian installer with brltty > Hi, > > I am using a braille note MPower 32 and want to use braille during the > install. > It will be connected to a serial port. > I think my machine has two serial ports. > > What are the steps to have braille working with the bn and the debian > installer? > > I heard probing is bad? Can it break a display? Or is this not true. > If I just connect it and turn on my machine and boot the installer will > it be ok? > (The braille note will be in the braille terminal before I power on my > computer) > > Will this work. > If someone could help me out with getting an accessible debian installer > it would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks. > > > -- > Daniel Dalton > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc > For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.21/1109 - Release Date: > 11/4/2007 11:05 AM > > _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
