On Fri, 02 Oct 2020 08:51:52 -0400,
Jude DaShiell wrote:
>
> I've never used a gentoo-live-cd and the reason I use the gentoo-minimal
> -cd is it's possible to bring speakup up on boot and for those few of us
> who can't see the screen and haven't got sighted help nearby, that makes
> all manner of independent computer operations possible.
>
> On Fri, 2 Oct 2020, Rich Freeman wrote:
>
> > Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 08:09:32
> > From: Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org>
> > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installation problems
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 4:53 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > >
> > >> I haven't used the Gentoo installer discs for years, but you should be
> > >> able to create your own mount points.
> > >
> > > Is it still supported? I thought it was abandoned again a good while
> > > back. That thing has come and gone so many times, I can't keep up with
> > > when it is active or isn't.
> > >
> >
> > The minimal CD, or creating mountpoints? The former has always
> > existed, and the latter has existed since the 70s.
> >
> > And please add non-html quotes - I really don't want to have to edit
> > replies...
> >
> > As far as the minimal CD goes, you an just create mountpoints, but
> > really I'm not sure why anybody uses it in the first place. I just
> > use a liveCD from ubuntu or whatever - there are a bazillion liveCDs
> > (including Gentoo-based ones), and just about all of them are more
> > useful than the Gentoo minimal iso. I'm not sure why we even produce
> > one, except maybe for the same reasons everybody sets the default
> > editor to nano. :)
> >
> >
I have used the minimal cd, but I would think any gentoo cd would have
the speakup module in it, you can always check by downloading the iso,
getting to the /lib/modules directory -- which might involve mounting
a squashfs file system -- and checking if the speakup module is there.
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