Re: Can't start Ubuntu 6.06.1 live cd with accessibility options

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel shellworld net>]

guides exist and can usually get you to where ubuntu comes up talking so 
long as you don't download a bad version of the livecd. There are two 
things to try and if both fail you got a bad disk. With the old livecd's 
as soon as the computer starts up hit f5 for accessibility options then 
hit downarrow 3 times then hit enter twice and increase the volume on your 
sound card speakers to full then wait.  You may hear talking out of the 
sound card telling you about orca preferences button and a quit button. 
If so, hit alt-tab once and you'll be in orca preferences.  If you know 
windows use some of the same techniques and you should be able to set 
these. The other thing to try as soon s the computer starts is hit f5 then 
type 3 and then hit enter and increase speaker volume and wait. The fun 
part comes when you try to get a talking install. for that, type 
control-alt-f1 then type sudo su "orca --no-setup &" <cr> That's supposed 
to turn orca on for the root user. then type sudo -i <cr> to get an 
interactive shell. then type orca <cr> and if you're very lucky you won't 
get prompted to key in those preferences by this time. Then type ubiquity 
<cr> and if you've preserved speech up to this point and ubiquity decides 
to talk you may be able to get ubuntu installed. Alternate installation 
strategy: As soon as computer starts type f6 and key in 
ks=http://cwelug.org/rwcitek/ubuntu/ks.cfg <cr> <cr> and go get dinner. 
If you can get sighted assistance have the screen read for you. If that 
installation works and you get to the login prompt type ubuntu <cr> then 
type 123456 for password <cr> and then type control-alt-f1 and then type 
orca -t <cr> and answer questions.  When finished type control-alt-f7 then 
type control-lt-backspace this logs you out but will bring you back to 
login so do the same login procedure ubuntu and password 123456 and then 
type alt-f2 and then type orca <cr> and you'll get speech up on an 
installed system.  Next type alt-f1 and move around until you get on 
system and hit return.  Move around until you hear preferences and hit 
return.  Move around until you hear accessibility and hit return.  Check 
the box that has orca starting on login and save those preferences and get 
out of there and then reboot the system. For the ks install option to work 
you got to have a good internet connection. Alternately, save what you 
find on http://cwelug.org/rwcitek/ubuntu/ks.cfg to a floppy disk call the 
file ks.cfg.  If you have another flavor of unix you may want to force 
line endings to be unix with a tool like fromdos or tounix or maybe 
dos2unix. With that file on a floppy and the floppy in your floppy drive 
and your ubuntu cd in its cd drive reboot the computer and hit f6 when 
computer starts then type: ks=file:/dev/fd0/ks.cfg <cr> <cr> if you get 
action on tboth floppy and cdrom drive, you'll be doing a local kickstart 
install with no dhcp needed. login as ubuntu and password is 123456 and 
good luck, you're going to need it!