Hello David, On Aug 3, 2023, at 11:46, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n...@arrl.net> wrote: > > Is there a tutorial for me to read to understand if additional Linux > distributions installed on the same device need separate BIOS BOOT and EFI > SYSTEM partitions in addition for a separate partition for that added Linux > distribution.
THere's a pretty good discussion of this here https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/742392/can-i-use-btrfs-subvolumes-for-trying-multiple-linux-distributions-without-commi I think I'd try a little different approach than what's recommended here, in that I would try chain loading each distros boot loader. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/343632/uefi-chainloading-grub-from-grub Since this is a bit off topic, feel free to write me off list if you need to talk this through further. --FC > > I want to have text console accessibility and the two best distributions that > do this are Debian and Slint (based on Slackware). > > However, Slint being Slackware based leaves big deficiencies in the > availability of applications. > > But on the other hand, Slint, especially for accessibility, has done an > amazing job. Not only are their useful customized scripts to get your system > to speak with a certain console screen reader (or not to speak at all), > certain screen readers like voxin (both the IBM TTS version and the new Voxin > Embedded TTS) install with an easy script, and if emacspeak is desire, it too > will be installed and integrated with the IBM TTS engine for emacspeak if > desired. I understand that an emacspeak engine for Voxin Embedded TTS is > under development and it's hoped that it will be added to Slint. > > The sole developer of Slint and Slint's multi language accessibility, Didier > Spaier has done an unbelievable job. > > In a way, the pity is that it's Slackware, and that distro hasn't kept up > with the software needs of it's user base. > > However, all those wished for applications and utilities are found in Debian > especially if a third-party sources.list generator is used to include > non-free software that isn't published in Debian such as multimedia codecs. > Debian is starting to keep up with it's user base by finally installing > non-free firmware, we can only hope for the non-free libraries that every > other Linux distro has. > > But we can add those by changing the /etc/apt/sources.list file See > https://debgen.simplylinux.ch/ > > It would be wonderful to have both of these on one device and have the one > that is wanted selected at boot time in a grub menu. > > Now only if boot up menus were accessible, but perhaps someday they will be. > > Rgds, > David
