On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Thomas Bächler
Chris Brannon schrieb:
I'm new to Arch. The other day, I downloaded the ISO mentioned in the subject line. I remastered the image, because I needed some extra programs. I'm blind. I added a screenreader and a text-to-speech engine to the ISO, so that I could have spoken feedback during the install. I also added alsa-utils, alsa-lib, and a few miscellaneous packages.
I wonder whether we should have those packages on the CD by default. It is especially difficult for a blind person to use a computer, and we force you to remaster the image yourself before you can use it. Worth a thought.
I agree. At the very least, we can offer an alternate "accessibility" version which would have tools like this for blind users and the like. Chris, what software do you need, or think others may need, when it comes to things like this?
For instance, after typing "ps" at the bash prompt, the system locked up. It was unable to load the ps executable or one of its shared libraries from the CD. Sometimes, it would print the message "input-output error", and return to a working bash prompt. I could hear my CD-ROM drive clicking whenever it tried to load the executable. It just sat there for five or more minutes, spinning and clicking.
The fact that your drive is making noises indicates that either the drive, the CD or the writer that wrote the CD are broken.
The other option is that remastering the CD was goofy. I expect the iso was unpacked, and software added to it which may or may not have been built against the same libraries. I am assuming Chris did not go through the process of building the ISO with archiso.