Braillefied iso of Mandriva's installer

Mike Keithley mkeithley at pobox.com
Sun May 29 18:56:02 UTC 2011


What is the calling card for this distribution?

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From: Odd Martin Baanrud <martin at lb7ye.net>
To:  blinux-list at redhat.com
Date: Saturday, May 21, 2011 03:34:56 AM
Subject: Braillefied iso of Mandriva's installer

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> Hello,
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> I'm using Mandriva Linux, and I'm very happy with it.
> The only big drawback is that the official installer doesn't contain
> brltty, so one need sighted help to install it.
> However, the distro is so good that I wanted it anyway, so I got sighted
> help when I installed it.
> 
> Anyway, it should be possible to install it for people who use braille.
> I contacted Mandriva and asked them if they could implement brltty, but
> I have not got any response so far.
> Therefor, I wonder if it's possible to make a braillefied installer
> image the same way as it is created for Fedora and RedHat?
> Since Mandriva also is RedHat-based, and the installer doesn't differ
> much from Fedora's, it shouldn't be very much work to do.
> I don't have the knowledge to do such things, so I wonder if someone on
> this list can take a look at it?
> For now, I think the best solution is to modify the small
> boot.iso-image, and put it on the download sight for brltty, where the
> braillefied images for Fedora etc. already are placed.
> 
> Regards, Martin
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