[BRLTTY] Linux on USB drive that supports BRLTTY?

[Mike Keithley]

Thank you very much!

----- Original Message -----
From: Jason White <jason at jasonjgw.net>
To:  brltty at mielke.cc,
Date: Monday, Jul 23, 2012 16:50:33
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Linux on USB drive that supports BRLTTY?

>
>
> Mike Keithley <mkeithley at pobox.com> wrote:
> > I need a Linux rescue distro on a USB thumb drive so I can manage my laptops
> > which don't have Linux. I'd like a console-based system with the necessary
> > USB modules For a USB/serial converter so I can use my PowerBraille display
> > with BRLTTY. 
> 
> Try GRML and see its wiki for instructions for use with BRLTTY.
> 
> Alternatively, install Debian to the drive and only select the packages that
> you want. GRML should be easier, however, since it is already designed as a
> rescue system.
> 
> You can boot GRML as a live CD and then run the included scripts to install it
> to the drive. Again, it's all on the wiki. I haven't installed GRML myself; I
> run it from a CD when I need it, which isn't often (all my machines are Linux
> systems and the only situation in which I need a rescue environment is when I
> or a package maintainer has made a mistake that renders a machine unbootable,
> which doesn't happen often).
> 
> As an aside, I needed GRML a few months ago when crackers were trying to
> compromise my machine. I was worried they might have managed to get in, thus I
> booted into GRML to carry out checks. Fortunately, they hadn't exploited
> anything, though they were sending lots of packets in from various hosts and
> probing ports - mostly Windows-related ports, as it turned out - very likely a
> script that performed random probes and attacks against machines on the
> network. They also took rather a long time to give up, despite the "port
> unreachable" replies that my machine sent back.
> 
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