Re: [orca-list] I need some info on the Solaris live cd.

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Mike:

I'm currently working on enabling the OpenSolaris live CD to include 
Orca and to permit an accessible install via Orca.  We currently have 
some Sun-internal prototypes that have been shown to work -- Mike 
Pedersen can burn the CD, boot it, and install OpenSolaris without 
sighted assistance.  It's a bit clunky at the moment, but it works.  
:-)

In the meantime, OpenSolaris includes GNOME and all of the 
accessibility infrastructure with it.  It's currently missing a speech 
engine, however, making it kind of useless for speech users.  :-(.  A 
lot of the work I'm going through involves getting eSpeak in 
OpenSolaris, which just involves making sure we do things "right" 
according to the OpenSolaris development/release process.  I hope to 
have an accessible install for OpenSolaris 2008.11.

Hope this helps,

Will

On Aug 15, 2008, at 6:54 PM, mike wrote:

> Hi, I was looking on the Internet today and found a link for a Solaris 
>  live CD.
>    Ok, my question is has anyone used the Solaris live CD? If so, does 
> it include Orca? I started the download, and it is 686 Mb, so I also 
> wonder if gnome is included. I have never tried Solaris before, and 
> would like to see what it is all about.
> One more thing. If anyone has used this CD, what can I expect when it 
> boots? Do I have to for example, make choices at boot time that I will 
> need sighted help to make?
>    Thanks Mike.
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