[arch-general] anyone had problems with archlinux-2008.06-ftp-i686.iso?

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Fri Sep 26 05:50:39 EDT 2008


Aaron Griffin schrieb:
>> 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?

We could simply add an extra squashfs overlay to the ISO. Do we have 
support for selecting or deselecting squashfs overlays on the boot 
prompt? Can a blind person even read the boot prompt (I think not, but 
then I don't know what possibilities there are).

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