[orca-list] Installing OpenSuSe 11.1 without a PC speaker?

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

Hi Everyone
Well, I'm back to playing with Linux, having been pre-ocupied in the  
Macintosh access technologies for quite a long time now. I'd like to  
get OpenSuSe 11.1 installed in a virtual machine on my Macbook. The  
directions I've found for an accessible install say to press F9 once I  
here the beep and select the menu options using the talking PC speaker  
boot menu.
Trouble is, none of the virtual machine environments for the Mac have  
a pc speaker, matter of fact they don't have PC speakers at all in  
their hardware. Can someone detail for me exactly what I have to do  
after pressing f9 to get the talking installer running? I haven't been  
able to get it to work, and I've tried f9 and then arrowing to each  
menu option in turn. The first option seems to boot, I get a small  
startup noise through my audio card, but it doesn't seem to be a  
complete environment, as I can't get anything to run--not orca, not  
even a gnome terminal window.
Wow, Gentoo and Arch are more straightforward than this. Just kidding,  
well... sort of kidding :).



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