Re: [orca-list] how accessible is a dual boot system?

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

You don't need to partition your hard drive in Windows. I install 
Ubuntu, and I just repartition my hard drive during the Ubuntu install 
using Orca. Ubuntu also has a install along side Windows option, which I 
haven't used myself.

On 05/12/2013 03:31 AM, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi Rusty,
>
>
> Yes, you can successfully set up a duel boot system with speech.
> You'll have to use the Windows 7 partition manager to create some
> space for Ubuntu or Sonar Linux, but once that is done just boot from
> your Linux CD, press control+s when the CD stops, and use Orca to
> follow the installation prompts. Once installed you can boot into your
> freshly installed Linux system, and edit your Grub configuration to
> have it beep when the boot prompt comes up as well as set the timeout
> to say 30 seconds and so on. I know this is a quick overview of the
> steps involved, but its not complicated.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
>
>
> On 5/11/13, Rusty Perez <rustys lists gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > I'm thinking of adding a flavor of linux to a freshly restored
> > computer which already has an install of win7 on it. Is it realistic
> > to think that i could install sonar or ubuntu 12.4 or the like
> > alongside win7 and choose, at startup, which I want to boot in to? I
> > recognize there will probably be no speech at the bootloader screen,
> > but will I hear anything, or will the scrollbar be wrapping so I may
> > not know which choice I make?
> > thanks!
> > Rusty
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