Two out of three ain't bad

[John Heim]

Yes, it speaks via speakup and espeak.

Last night I added wireless tools and set it so that you don't have to login 
on tty0. I haven't posted a new iso with these changes yet. But when I do, 
you should be able to boot with this cd, wait for it to start talking, and 
then start typing in linux commands.

I actually made my first real use of the CD last night. I was listening to 
an episode of Nova on my laptop and all of a sudden, sound went out. I had 
no speech, no audio of any type. Even catting a sound file to /dev/audio 
gave me nothing. I rebooted, still nothing. But I rebooted with the live CD 
I made (blindI or whatever I settle on for a name) and it did speak. So via 
this live CD, I was able to determine that there is nothing wrong with the 
laptop itself.

With the laptop, that means that the live CD has booted 3 out of 4 computers 
I've tried it on. I think it probably booted the 4th but without speech. I 
don't know for sure.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Reinhard Stebner" <reinhard.stebner at gmail.com>
To: "'Linux for blind general discussion'" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 8:11 PM
Subject: RE: Two out of three ain't bad


> How does it speak?  Are you using speakup?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of John Heim
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:51 AM
> To: Linux for blind general discussion
> Subject: Two out of three ain't bad
>
> Well, I have my first very, very preliminary attempt at making a live 
> rescue
>
> disk done. Version 0.0.0.0.0.1. I was able to boot it on 2 of the 3
> computers I tried. Two out of three ain't bad.  It comes up speaking and I
> was able to fdisk a hard drive with it. I'm not actually suggesting you 
> try
> it yet unless you are really, really desperate. But if you want to give it 
> a
>
> whirl, you can download the iso at
>
> http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/stuff/cdrom.iso
>
> You will have to log in as root with the password blindI. Note the capital
> I.
>
> The password is one idea I had for the name. My ideas for names:
>
> 1. blindI  -- as in "blind install".  It doesn't look as if blindi is a 
> word
>
> in any language so it would be easy to google.
>
> 2. marcol -- A guy who played for the Packers in the 70s. This happens to 
> be
>
> the name of the machine I started the project on
>
> 3. grmln -- It would be pronounced "gremlin". Also easy to google.
>
> Actually, version 0.0.0.0.1 isn't based off grml. I made the iso via
> bootcdwrite. But I am thinking going back to trying to modify the grml iso
> might be smarter. I tried modifying my live CD from the "Fully Automated
> Install" open source project. I'd already modified it to add speech. But 
> it
> boots off an NFS mounted root. I thought I could put the root on the CD
> fairly easily but I couldn't figure that out.  So that approach turned out
> to be a dead end.
>
> Advice, comments welcome.
>
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