live Ubuntu cd with Orca

Marcel Oats moats at orcon.net.nz
Sat Nov 25 15:00:35 EST 2006


Sometimes I have not had Orca come up the first time.  Try hitting 
control+alt+backspace, to kill the GDM, and it will automatically log 
you back in, hopefully with Orca this time.  You are using 6.1 aren't you?

Marcel
At 03:38 PM 25/11/2006, you wrote:
>hi marcel,
>i tried that it appears to have accepeted all of the key strokes
>because when i hit inter the second time the cd came back on
>it ran for about 3 minutes
>shut off and no speech
>this time i did not get the startup music like normal
>so i am in a different menu for sure.
>randy
>
>
>On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Marcel Oats wrote:
>
> > Hi, as soon as you hear the cd spinning up, just start tapping the f5
> > key.  Don't hold it down, just tap it several times.  In theory,
> > you'd make it to the boot menu, have already selected the
> > accessibility options, and can then just press 3, enter, enter.
> >
> > At 10:19 Ay M 25/11/2006, you wrote:
> >
> >> yep me too!
> >> i am having the exact same problem
> >> i even tried it when the cd slowed the spinning down
> >> i get the music but that is all
> >> randy
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Buddy Brannan wrote:
> >>
> >>> Beh...I burned a Ubuntu to try it, and my CD spins a lot before it
> >>> stops (and by the time it stops, I think it's started loading
> >>> stuff). Anyway, for some reason, I can't get it to start up with orca
> >>> at all...or at least, with no talking. Anyone else running a system
> >>> with no monitor? Anyway; I tried it several times, and this system
> >>> *can* boot off a CD, so not sure where I'm going wrong.
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