debian-firmware disks

[Jude DaShiell]

I normally do a command like:
wget -bc -i surf
to get the download and of sourse the surf file has to have the right 
contents in it which are:
# file: surf
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-testing-amd64-netinst.iso

The surf file should be no more than 2 lines in length and if your email 
wraps lines you'll have to join the line with the url on it and remove 
all spaces.

The comment line was not in the original surf file and is here only as a 
label for following contents.

On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, Mike and Jenna wrote:

> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 11:03:57
> From: Mike and Jenna <schwaltze at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: 'Linux for blind general discussion' <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: RE: debian-firmware disks
> 
> Where did you download it from?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Jude DaShiell
> Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2015 10:32 AM
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: debian-firmware disks
>
> The image is firmware-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
> On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, Jude
> DaShiell wrote:
>
>> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 10:21:22
>> From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>
>> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> Subject: Re: debian-firmware disks
>>
>> This is a cd image not a dvd image.  I'll send the image name in next
>> message.On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, Tony Baechler wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 07:36:33
>>> From: Tony Baechler <tony at baechler.net>
>>> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>> Subject: Re: debian-firmware disks
>>>
>>> If I understand correctly, you're saying that the regular DVD does
>>> beep, but the DVD with non-free firmware doesn't.  Exactly which DVD
>>> image did you download?
>>>
>>> I'm asking because if one image is beeping and the other isn't,
>>> you've found a bug and it should be reported.  My understanding is
>>> that all CD and DVD images from stable should beep, regardless of
>>> whether they include non-free firmware.  If you downloaded from
>>> testing, there is no beep and that is expected.  DDs who do multiple
>>> installs with testing didn't want to be bothered by hearing a beep
>>> potentially dozens of times, so it is disabled for testing and unstable.
>>>
>>> On 9/27/2015 4:05 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>>>> It's possible to use these for accessible installs however the boot
>>>> procedure is a little different.  The firmware disks do not beep at
>>>> the grub prompt.  However if you hit s just as you hear the dvd
>>>> start spinning up and then hit enter, you will have speech over the
>>>> sound card shortly. The first time the disk just spun up so I
>>>> powered down and decided to try what I just wrote and it does work.
>>>> I was able to configure the wifi network with the disk I downloaded
>>>> so will be doing a reinstall of the laptop later today.
>>>
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