Re: [orca-list] Use Linux as a daily driver

[Al Sten-Clanton <albert e sten_clanton verizon net>]

Is there a Stretch live DVD?

I tried installing from the Jesse live DVD.  On my first try, I made 
some progress but abandoned it for reasons not relevant now.  My other 
attempts got me nowhere.  In any event, although I had Orca at a good 
volume (and Speakup, for that matter), starting the installer reduced 
the speech volume to almost nothing, and I could not fix it with either 
amixer or alsamixer.

I have installed Jesse from a net-install CD, though.  Orca's talking 
nicely, and I hope Speakup will as well once I follow the instructions 
for kicking PulseAudio out of the way.

Al

On 2/1/2016 1:12 AM, Øyvind Lode wrote:
> Hi:
>
> On 1 February 2016 at 05:56, Krishnakant <krmane openmailbox org> wrote:
> > So what if I take a debian DVD which has every thing in it.
> Make sure to download the testing distribution code named "stretch".
> I believe the testing distribution offers a full DVD.
>
> > Can I use the Graphical installer?
> I'm not sure.
> I know that the live CD/DVD is accessible and one can start Orca the
> usual way by pressing windows+alt+s.
> I'm not sure if it's possible to install from the live session or
> wether the installer is accessible.
>
> > Or will the text based installer work here?
> For sure.
> The text based installer will for sure work from the full DVD as well.
> As I said in my previous message type s and hit enter on the boot
> prompt to start the text-based installer with speech.
> Debian will beep when it's time to enter boot options.
> So, if you have some kind of pc speaker wait for the beep.
>
> > And can I make the selections from there instead of downloading it from
> > Internet?
> Yes.
> When installing from the DVD you should be able to install both the
> base system and a full desktop set up without downloading any
> packages.
> When the base system is installed the installer will prompt you when
> it's time to install additional software.
> The default is to install a desktop (I believe the default is XFCE),
> print server and standard utilities.
> Make sure you download the testing distribution and not the stable.
> You can of course upgrade a stable Debian installation to testing or
> like I did to unstable but that means a lot of packages will be
> downloaded.
> The stable distro is great for stability but some packages are a bit
> out of date.
> Of course you can use Debian backports to get more recent packages
> also on stable.
> I always use the stable version of debian on servers.
> I always run a netinst installation and download the rest from
> internet using apt - the debian package manager
> The possibilities are nearly endless.
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