[BRLTTY] technical debian info

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Fri Nov 4 12:27:14 EST 2005


Hi,

mrkiko, le Fri 04 Nov 2005 18:20:21 +0100, a écrit :
> I experienced that in the installation environment of old previous 
> version of Debian Woody, you was able to launch easily a static brltty 
> executable and proceed the installation with the "dbootstrap command", but 
> from now the debian maintainers decided to remove "/dev/vcs*" and especially 
> "/dev/tty*" and to create the "/dev/console" only device. This resulted in the 
> inability for brltty to run in this environment. If someone knows about that 
> it's pleased to make me know.

Please use the Access floppies
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/installer-i386/current/images/floppy/access/
They include a kernel that provides every needed things.

Mario, is there some official documentation page on these?

Regards,
Samuel


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