[BRLTTY] Does the rhmkiso script work for anyone at all?

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Jason White wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:25:27PM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote:
> > No, it can't. BRLTTY is started in these installer images about as early as
> > user-space would permit, i.e. immediately, before anything else has been
> > started.
> I've just checked out how my laptop does it, which runs a fairly recent
> version of Gentoo.
> 
> The initial /dev nodes are created by a MAKEDEV script and reside on the root
> file system. Later, udev is mounted over the top of /dev as a tmpfs file
> system.
> 
> In the absence of anything better, you may have to follow this procedure,
> which is likely to work better as long as someone else is maintaining the
> MAKEDEV script and it creates all the nodes you need, which in this case would
> be part of the CD image.

Better yet is to simply create the needed device nodes when they're 
missing, using makenod and the hardcoded major/minor numbers.  Those 
numbers are function of the kernel and not of the distribution used to 
create the braillified image anyway.


Nicolas