Talking debian installer (d-i) for Ubuntu

[Samuel Thibault]

Jeffrey Malewski, le Thu 24 Jan 2013 10:52:28 -0500, a écrit :
> They are available as .udeb or source (tar.bz2) I am
> unsure how to add the alsa, espeak, and espeakup .udebs to the initrd.img so

I am unsure either.  I how how it happens in the Debian d-i, but I don't
know the installer is built in Ubuntu. Ideally you'd just need to add
the speakup-modules-${kernel:Version} sound-modules-${kernel:Version}
and espeakup-udeb into the package list of the Ubuntu installer, but I
don't know how that works, that's why I advised you to see with the
Ubuntu installer maintainers.

> my
> first question is whether I would be better off to build the di kernel as a
> monolithic kernel or not.

Probably not. It's probably easier to let speakup as modules, and let
the rootskel init scripts automatically load the module and
espeakup-udeb start the synth.

> The Debian Cd has a
> mechanism to disable the gtk frontend so that the installer runs in a pure text
> environment (everything is directly on-screen rather than ina dialoge box)
> which allows speakup to read the options as they appear on-screen. Is this
> something I should try to incorporate into the modified initrd.img?

I believe Ubuntu still has something like this, called "alternate
installer". Again, see with the installer maintainers.

I don't have the time to discuss with these maintainers myself, but keep
me in Cc, and I'll help if I see there are misunderstandings, or some
experience from Debian can be useful.

Samuel