orca on ubuntu

[Jude DaShiell]

I managed to get orca up and talking some on ubuntu livecd but never did 
manage to get much after orca switched to focus track mode.  I had 
everything enabled in setup except braille and braille monitor and the 
control-alt-backslash key combination produced to log back into ubuntu 
didn't appear to do anything but I suppose running orca for the second 
time and not hearing the setup menu might serve as confirmation.  I have 
to do some research to learn orca's commands but would like to know will 
it be necessary to enable caret mode before running the install command or 
am I likely to be better off doing a remote kickstart install then just 
dealing with all of this stuff after the install?