Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 17:22:49 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), pvernon@purdue.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, max@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Accessability (was Re: question) Message-ID: <199807250022.RAA01204@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Jul 1998 01:08:00 -0000." <199807240108.SAA22750@usr06.primenet.com>
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> > 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
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