On 3/30/2012 8:15 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:12:08 +0100 > Eleanore Boyd<cara...@cox.net> wrote: > >> On 3/29/2012 11:03 AM, mike wrote: >>> hi, >>> >>> I am blind and build my lfs's usually using grml and an ssh session but was >>> wondering if their is a way to get the lfs live cd to start with speakup for >>> building? >>> >> I am working on getting accessibility support back into the livecd in >> general, and am trying to replace the GNOME window manager with fluxbox, >> so it might be a while before it can without breaking. To be honest, I >> didn't expect my announcement to generate this much interest, especially >> seeing as I'm just a high school student working during a computer class >> and after school on such things as LFS. Plus, I originally meant the >> announcement as wanting to know if anyone wanted to see what I did and >> take a few ideas from it, maybe improve on it. >> >> Has anyone else thought of remastering the Ubuntu livecd for building >> purposes? It would be slightly horrific if I was the only one, as I >> don't think I can develop and maintain this sort of thing by myself, >> there's a little too much that needs to be done yet...... > You're a hero for even contemplating such a thing. If you build it > people will use it. It will be a lot of work and as you've already > found out, people will ask you to support things that you've never even > thought. On the plus side, you get to be the big cheese in your own > project. > If you start from another distro like Ubunut you'll have to do a lot of > work getting to know how they work. An alternative is to resurrect the > moribund LFS LiveCD. I think doing that would have a very steep initial > learning curve but once you got an initial version working you'd be > working from an LFS base so you wouldn't need to learn about another > distro. > Personally, I'd just run away if I were you ;) > > Andy And that is why Google, Bing, Ask, etc. are the geek's best friends.
Fun trivia: Ubiquity (the Ubuntu installer) is gui-only. Therefore, when making a livecd based off of the server installation, there is no using any tool that relies on casper and ubiquity without losing the console-only interface. Whee.......... Elly -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
