Hi Mario & all, Just an additionnal question : You need these two floppies in order to be able to install sarge with the new debian-installer but do you need something else ? I think you need sarge CD isos but something else ? Thx in advance for this precision.
Mario Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi people. > > I've built a new floppy set based on the new Debian-Installer > for Sarge with BRLTTY included. I've just installed a fresh > new system with them, so they appear to work. If you have some spare > machine to test this on, I'd appreciate your comments. > > You can find the image files at: > http://people.debian.org/~mlang/install/ > > bootfloppy-image.img is the first floppy required for booting. > access-image.img is the second floppy required. > > How To: > You need to pass a kernel option to lilo when the first floppy > (bootfloppy) boots, to tell brltty what display you have, and where it > is connected. > I've tested with a Vario here, so I passed the following options: > boot: linux brltty=va,tts/1,de > > This would load brltty with the Vario (va) driver, try > to initialize the display at /dev/tts/1 (COM2), and use > a german translation table. > > After the initial (bootfloppy) has finished loading, it > waits for a second floppy (or an USB storage device) to. > Just swap floppies, and wait for the second floppy to load. During the > loading of the second floppy, BRLTTY should initialize your display and you > should be able to read all the screen content. > > Please let me know if anything is unclear, or if something didn't work > proerply. > > However, note that the Debian-Installer is still in development, > so there might be some little issues. > > -- > CYa, > Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> > | Get my public key via finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Nath
