But I thought the Live Image did not install speech-dispatcher and other requirements for console speech.
If it does, how do I get it to do that? Is it under "Advanced Graphical Installation"? Rgds, David On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 11:57 AM K0LNY <glenn@ervin.email> wrote: > David, I would think that the installer from a live image would handle the > GRUB for this to work. > Glenn > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n...@arrl.net> > *To:* debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org > *Sent:* Thursday, August 3, 2023 10:46 AM > *Subject:* Installing More than One Linux on BTRFS Disk > > Is there a tutorial for me to read to understand if additional Linux > distributions installed on the same device need separate BIOS BOOT and EFI > SYSTEM partitions in addition for a separate partition for that added Linux > distribution. > > I want to have text console accessibility and the two best distributions > that do this are Debian and Slint (based on Slackware). > > However, Slint being Slackware based leaves big deficiencies in the > availability of applications. > > But on the other hand, Slint, especially for accessibility, has done an > amazing job. Not only are their useful customized scripts to get your > system to speak with a certain console screen reader (or not to speak at > all), certain screen readers like voxin (both the IBM TTS version and the > new Voxin Embedded TTS) install with an easy script, and if emacspeak is > desire, it too will be installed and integrated with the IBM TTS engine for > emacspeak if desired. I understand that an emacspeak engine for Voxin > Embedded TTS is under development and it's hoped that it will be added to > Slint. > > The sole developer of Slint and Slint's multi language accessibility, > Didier Spaier has done an unbelievable job. > > In a way, the pity is that it's Slackware, and that distro hasn't kept up > with the software needs of it's user base. > > However, all those wished for applications and utilities are found in > Debian especially if a third-party sources.list generator is used to > include non-free software that isn't published in Debian such as multimedia > codecs. Debian is starting to keep up with it's user base by finally > installing non-free firmware, we can only hope for the non-free libraries > that every other Linux distro has. > > But we can add those by changing the /etc/apt/sources.list file See > https://debgen.simplylinux.ch/ > > It would be wonderful to have both of these on one device and have the one > that is wanted selected at boot time in a grub menu. > > Now only if boot up menus were accessible, but perhaps someday they will > be. > > Rgds, > David >
