Hi Greg,

Thanks for the bug report. Yes this is a very net-install mini iso (I
think debian refered to it previously as the business card iso) which
has only just enough bits to get on the net to download the resot of the
installer. We don't yet produce the fuller iso matching debian's
definition of net-install.

I think with this sparse alpha2 image you could acheive what you want
but only if you use expert mode and then install the espeak component.

Once we are at near to the beta stage, we will be building the fatter
net-install iso which will include the espeak module built in.

I will also (as Devuans maintainer of D-I) consider whether this could
be pulled in for the mini.iso so that it is more accessible provided it
doesn't blow the size out of the water.

Thanks for you report and feedback. I really appreciate it :D

Daniel Reurich.

On 26/06/15 14:26, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I've been lurking on this list for a couple of weeks, and this is my
> first post here. I'd like to start by saying a big thank you to those
> working hard to bring us debian jessie and beyond without
> systemd. I like to keep an open mind, so after reading arguments for
> and against systemd (and failing to be impressed by it), I installed jessie in a virtual machine and gave
> it a chance. To make a long story short, I'm on this list, and still
> running wheezy on my boxes.
>
> I recently downloaded devuan-jessie-netboot-amd64-alpha2.iso and
> wanted to give it a try. I access GNU/Linux systems using screen
> reading software such as speakup for the text console, and orca in
> gnome or xfce. So, when I mounted the mentioned iso, and saw spk.cfg
> along with the other boot loader files, I thought good.
>
> So, I created a guest in virtualbox (with ac97 emulated sound card), loaded in the iso, and attempted
> to do an install to see how it goes. At the boot screen, I pressed s
> followed by enter, but that's as far as I got. In debian squeeze and
> jessie what would've happened at this point is that after waiting a
> few seconds, I would have heard espeak say "select a language to be
> used for the installation," but I got silence. Running OCR on the
> guest's screen showed me that this is in fact what was being displayed
> as far as I can tell.
>
> I realize that the devuan boot iso is significantly smaller then a
> debian jessie netinst iso, so it likely doesn't contain sound drivers,
> and the espeakup/espeak packages. I also realize that this is still an
> alpha release. I do not know if this is a known issue however, and
> thought it would be better to mention this now while things are still
> being molded so to speak, instead of mentioning it in the beta phase
> when everything would be pretty much settled as far as development goes.
>
> If this is a known issue, please let me know if there is anything I
> can try to help with besides simply waiting for devuan to mature
> more. If accessibility devuan was overlooked, then I'm glad I brought
> this up. Thanks for reading.
>
> Greg
>
>


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