installing ubuntu with what may be missing pieces

[luke]

You're running Ubuntu 8.04 correct?  All of the images for that I could 
find, did not include the GUI installer, so using, for example, that Irish 
fellow's Gnome with Orca tutorial, would not hack it for me, because 
things do not work the same way with the desktop CD I was able to 
download.

Which image did you use, and where did you get it?

Thanks

Luke

 On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, 
Bruce Noblick wrote:

> First, thanks to all for giving me the info to get through a couple of successful tries, putting different variations of ubuntu on the new machine I built. The last one was done using the live CD.  By using the references in other notes on this list, I got it to come up speaking.
> 
> Second, Here are some questions.  What will it take to get to a shell? What must I do to get speech from the shell, not just from the GUI?
> 
> Since I have installed this on a clean system, I would be willing to start over if that would be a better way to do things.  I have no reason to be tied to any particular distro if another one would be easier to get working fully.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Bruce Noblick 
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