Re: [orca-list] Orca at install time on Ubuntu server 15.04?

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
Yup, makes sense. Debian and talking arch are the only accessible 
distros taht I know of. It's of course possible to get other text 
distros to speak, but you have to know what you're doing and the distros 
have to have the right tools in their repos. Fedora doesn't ship with 
speakup in it's kernels. I believe gentoo does, but it's been years 
since I've tried gentoo.
Thanks
Kendell clark


On 9/28/2015 4:38 AM, Tony Baechler wrote:
> On 9/27/2015 10:27 PM, kendell clark wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity, does the ubuntu server edition have a desktop
> > installed? If so, what desktop is it? If unity, all you're supposed to
> > need to do is press alt+windows+s to get orca to speak. After that orca
> > should start automatically. If this fails, press alt+f2 to open up the
> > run dialog and type orca --replace. If this still doesn't work I'll have
> > to dig further, although orca --replace is supposed to cause orca to
> > start, killing any other orca procs that may be running but hung.
>
>
> My understanding is the server edition doesn't ship a desktop. Maybe 
> that's why it's called Server.  I don't think it's accessible at all.  
> I haven't looked in a few years, but even though the installer uses 
> D-I, it doesn't seem to support speech. Luke, please correct me on this.
>
> Installing the standard desktop release is simple enough, but as the 
> op says, it doesn't support software RAID, so it would have to be set 
> up manually.  It doesn't let you set this up when formatting the 
> partition, thus creating a lot of extra complications because the op 
> would have to install, make a backup, boot a rescue CD, set up 
> software RAID, restore the backup and hope it works.  If the 
> assignment is simply being able to set up an MD array during install 
> and isn't specific to Ubuntu, Debian is the far easier and better way 
> to go.
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