Re: [orca-list] installing ubuntu with orca

[Christopher Gray <chris bayareadigital us>]

Hi Joe:

The link you provided below doesn't resolve.  Can you please provide the correct 
link?

Thank you.

Chris

On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Joe Quinn wrote:

> Hi there.
> I'm sorry of this has been covered ad nauseam, however I am a new user of orca and Ubuntu (and especially 
> Linux in general), thus am asking this.
>
> I followed the instructions found at
> http://live.gnome.org/Orca/UbuntuEdgyEfttt
> related to installing ubuntu in an accessible manner. granted, these instructions are for Ubuntu 6.10, and 
> there may be newer ones. Let me know if there are.
> I was able to go into gnome-terminal, do a sudo su to change to root, but, then went I did orca --no-setup & 
> and pressed enter, (not forgetting to type ubiquity to initialize the dtk accessibility thing), orca loaded, but, 
> wouldn't really talk. did I do something wrong, is there a better and/or more efficient way of doing it?
> I did get it to half-way install, (of course I kind of forgot, and/or was confused about how I got it to talk 
> me through the installation in the first place, so couldn't relay it to you to troubleshoot),however when I 
> got to the part about partitioning the harddrive, it didn't talk, and I was  forced to abort. so, either way, 
> I wouldn't have been able to complete the install.
> On a related matter, is there something wrong with orca and the partitioning program, cause when I launched 
> gnome partition editor, it wouldn't talk there either. maybe they're one in the same, which would make sense 
> why they both wouldn't talk.
>
> any help and/or suggestions as to how I can get this to better talk me through the installation, would be 
> appreciated.
> Thanks much.

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