Thanks for this info, I'll try an experiment and if I get lucky will post
here.


-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that
order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

On Mon, 28 Aug 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Knoppix's boot process is an inaccessible blackbox, but best I can
> tell from using it for years, that message, when it plays, plays after
> the system is mostly booted, and if started in Adriane mode, you
> should be hearing SBL talking at the Adriane main menu shortly after
> that message plays. No idea if botting in desktop mode, though if the
> system is silent after that message plays, it might be worth trying
> alt+F2 and typing Orca into the run dialog that should come up if
> you're at the desktop.
>
> That said, when I used Knoppix and the discontinued releasing a CD
> version that has Adriane as the default boot option, I got in the
> habit of editing the iso to make Adriane the default... Sadly, the
> process is rather convoluted thanks to the read-only nature of the
> iso9660 filesystem, or at least, I never found a more straight forward
> means of doing it...
>
> The method I employed went as follows:
> mount the .iso using the loopback device.
> copy the contents of the ISO to a folder on your harddrive.
> Make sure you have write permissions on the copied files
> Edit a config file... sadly, I con't remember the exact filename, but
> I think it was under the isolinux folder of the ISO's contents and
> ended in .conf or .cfg... the line to be edited is near the top of the
> file and you just have to change the line from reading default knoppix
> to default adriane(or default adriane64 if you want to run with a
> 64-bit kernel).
> Rebuild the ISO
> Burn the ISo.
>
> Also, I've only ever gotten this to work writing the rebuilt iso to a
> DVD, I've yet to have success booting knoppix from a flash drive.
>
> And while the above is a hassle, I put up with it for years mainly
> because there's no accessible way of knowing when to manually input
> the Adriane cheat code at boot time.
>
> On 8/28/23, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote:
> > When booting with knoppix I get female message saying starting
> > initialization and that's all that happens.
> > Is this were you key in your cheatcodes or should the cheatcodes have been
> > keyed in before that announcement?
> >
> >
> > -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
> > defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that
> > order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.
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