From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 27 16:23:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05592 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:23:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from access.sfc.wide.ad.jp (bourbon.sfc.wide.ad.jp [203.178.141.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA05476; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:22:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from max_pop@bourbon.sfc.wide.ad.jp) Received: from bourbon ([212.211.24.41]) by access.sfc.wide.ad.jp (8.8.8/3.5Wpl107/15/97) with SMTP id IAA08986; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 08:19:48 +0900 (JST) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 08:19:48 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199807272319.IAA08986@access.sfc.wide.ad.jp> From: Masafumi NAKANE To: Mike Smith , Terry Lambert Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), pvernon@purdue.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, max@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Accessability (was Re: question) X-Mailer: D-Mail v2.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry, I'm on the road and can't really spend much time on emails at t his point. But, I will be more than happy to help you with this after I get home on 08/09. Since I'm accessing FreeBSD using DOS and screen reader, I'm sure I can be some help. Basically, what Mike suggests will enable the installation using screen reader under dos. What we, as FreeBSD developers, probably should consider is to put -D (or was it -d) in the boot.config of the boot floppy. I will comment on what Terry has written, which is quite important when I get home. Cheers, Max At 24 Jul 17:22 , Mike Smith wrote: > >> > Max; I copied you on this because if anyone knows about how to make this >> > happen, you do. >> > >> > > I want to install 2.2.7 on one of my machines. I have to install it over a >> > > serial port because I am blind and need to read the screen during install. >> > > My speech software runs under dos. Thus, i must install it on my new >> > > machine from my dos box. I'm not sure how to install it on a machine im not >> > > physically at. >> > >> > FreeBSD supports using the first serial port on your system as the >> > console port. If you don't have a video card in the system, it will >> > use the serial port instead. >> > >> > Then you simply connect the serial port from the FreeBSD system to your >> > DOS system, and use a DOS terminal program to provide you with a >> > console. >> >> It seems that it would be a good idea to provide some way to invoke >> this with as little work as possible from a boot floppy. > >There is an option in the bootstrap to probe the keyboard; I'm not sure >if it's the default or not. If the keyboard's not present, it will use >the serial port. > >> It would also be a good idea to start thinking in terms of accessibility >> functions for the console, the keyboard driver, and Free-B.S.D. in >> general. > >Thinking is easy; finding a developer interested in taking on the work >less so. > >Your suggestions are pretty good though (if unoriginal 8) > >-- >\\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith >\\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au >\\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org >\\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message