Accessible Live CD's?

[Kyle]

You can try the TalkingArch live CD at
http://talkingarch.tk/
It usually comes up at a decent volume, and will allow you to choose
which sound card or headset you want at boot time via a voice recording
and a beep. You can install packages on-the-fly, just like in most other
systems, so you can install the ftp package for one-time use as soon as
you get a prompt. You would install it like

pacman -Sy <package>

in this case. There is also the #talkingarch IRC channel on Freenode if
you need help in realtime. Hope this helps.
~Kyle
http://kyle.tk/
-- 
"Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?"
Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"