Root Filesystem For Debian 2.1 With BRLTTY ========================================== The file debian-2.1-brltty-combibraille-i386-root.bin is a root filesystem for installing Debian 2.1 (slink) on the i386 architecture. It contains BRLTTY 2.1 compiled for CombiBraille (no speech, due to my laziness:-). The German braille table is compiled into the binary, and used by default, but other braille tables are available on the disk. By default, /dev/ttyS0 is used for the Braille device. Installing Debian ================= If you are installing from floppy, use this file system instead of the root.bin provided by Debian. If you use 1.44 MB rescue disk, type "ramdisk" at the boot prompt, insert a disk with this file (as described in the Debian installation instructions) into the first floppy drive. If installing from a hard drive, just specify this file instead of root.bin as the initrd boot parameter to the loadlin command. If you install from bootable CD-ROM, just type ramdisk at the boot prompt and insert a disk with this file on it into the first floppy. Customization ============= You may change command line arguments to brltty or replace the program on this disk. It is a gzip compressed minix filesystem. It can be mounted (after uncompressing it with gunzip) if you have the loop device in your kernel. Something like: # mount debian-2.1-combibraille-brltty-i386-root.bin /mnt -t minix -o loop should mount the filesystem on /mnt. Then you can do what you need with it. If you want to change the brltty command line, just edit /mnt/etc/rc. If you don't have a CombiBraille, you can compile your own brltty binary and put it on the disk. Just make sure that you link it statically (with the -static flag in the LDFLAGS make variable in the top level Makefile). roblems ======= This disk was maed so that I was able to install a Debian system without sighted assistance. It worked for me, but I only tested it on that system. Also, this documentation was written very quickly so that I could upload the file to the Blinux archive. If you have any problems, feel free to contact Peter Nilsson . Good Luck!