ubuntu edgey install and orca

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

Why is the install application nonverbal?  I used the orca howto and got 
much to work but the install program does not talk when I run it.  The 
boot line also appears disabled and this is unfortunate since ubuntu 6.06 
had all of its questions answered in the partitioner/formatter tool and 
this was with speech never enabled done by a sighted friend then the 
computer was left alone for 4 hours and proceeded to do absolutely 
nothing.  This is on a 1999 vintage dell desktop machine with 414MB of 
memory and the hard drive ubuntu was given was 120GB in size so it's well 
under the 200GB limit unless the limit is actually smaller than 120GB in 
which case it's entirely understandable why this wouldn't install.  If I 
can get access to boot: prompt with a little bit of audible notification I 
can use a remote kickstart file to try to install ubuntu and leave the 
computer alone while I go to work.  Without that, unless I can get install 
talking I got me another ubuntu coaster.  I'm not going to ask for sighted 
assistance on this anymore, the frustration with the last failed 
experiment is too fresh in everybody's minds and though ubuntu may be able 
to install on a laptop it may be a few years before I have that kind of 
gear I can use to try it out in that configuration.  Another possibility 
would be to try installing it on a gateway machine though I'll have to get 
a drive sled installed on that one to do it.