What I need for clean install is to remember what key is to start
boot manager during power up. I don't need to remove any drive.
Here's an example with debian installer:
It may be slightly different with another laptop but the audio indicator from debian installer is really helpful. I also able to install archlinux without sighted assistance.
As an added trick, I add unique tone on my GRUB. Which means if I
hear that tone, then I messed up and need to repeat the step
above. This helps on some distro that takes a while before we can
enable orca.
Regards
Okay, so it sounds like that, even if one were comfortable opening up and temporarily disconnecting the harddrive, the best you could do without a monitor and a functioning eyeball is: 1. Disconnect hard drive. 2. Boot live media. 3. change the boot order from the live environment 4. shut down. 5. reconnect the hard drive. 6. boot the install media And repeat this rigamarole every time you want to do a clean install or boot a live environment to create/restor a back up of your system partition or do other rescue tasks... and that's assuming the temporary change to the boot order can survive a cold boot. Anyone else feel like slapping whoever's responsible for the broken, industry standard default with a fish? _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Orca wiki: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca Orca documentation: https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/ GNOME Universal Access guide: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html