Oh yeah! It was always relatively easy to do on the old powerpc mac minis but rather a pain on the newer Intel ones which was kind of ironic. But for Jessie they had a special cd that booted on the intel Mac mini without one having to do anything special to the Mac as had been the case in the past and I hope they keep on doing that. I wasn't sure if the live cd would boot on my 2007 Intel mac mini but it did; haven't tried it on the older powerpc one yet. But it makes sense that command would be analogous to the windows key in some cases because when I ran vmware fusion on my mac that used command for the Windows key on my Mac keyboard if i remember correctly. > On Sep 11, 2015, at 11:09 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona <hank.smith966@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I didn't know you could even install linux on to mac mini's > Hank > > > On 9/11/2015 8:56 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> Okay I've learned my new thing for the day :-) >> >> I was booting it on an old intel mac mini that actually has debian on it but I'm not using orca on it now. I actually did get it to boot and I did discover that command-option-s got me screen reader is turned on" and "off". I'll probably play with it more later. >> >>> On Sep 11, 2015, at 9:52 PM, Christopher Chaltain <chaltain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Super+alt+s means hold down the super key, the alt key and the s key all at the same time. The super key is also known as the Windows key. >>> >>> On 09/11/2015 08:09 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >>>> Hmmm, maybe I was confused about the installer you are using or perhaps >>>> what I found was too old. In looking at debian accessibility there is >>>> reference to the gnome live cd and it does talk about starting orca. I'm >>>> pasting what it says (can't figure out what super-alt-s is!) and paste >>>> the link. >>>> >>>> The gnome liveCD has screen reader support. At the boot menu, one has to >>>> type enter (TODO: add beep). Then the desktop launches up (TODO: add >>>> beep), and one can press super-alt-s to start Orca. >>>> >>>> >>>> https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Sep 11, 2015, at 7:54 PM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4110@xxxxxxxxxx >>>>> <mailto:cah4110@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Well, I went looking for this, partly because it seems you've gotten >>>>> no answer and partly because I have a frustrating situation with two >>>>> old computers with different wifi cards that can respond to a scan but >>>>> don't connect. I was thinking about trying the live cd in them to see >>>>> whether that would do wifi for either of these machines but frankly >>>>> this link below looks rather confusing so I don't know whether or not >>>>> I'll try it. I imagine you have already read this so it's probably not >>>>> helpful but it's all I've found so far. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Accessibility/doc/StartGuide >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Cheryl >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On Sep 10, 2015, at 10:54 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona >>>>>> <hank.smith966@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:hank.smith966@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> xHello when launching the live cd >>>>>> when the drum sounds what is the proper command to turn orca on? >>>>>> tried control s >>>>>> tried >>>>>> alt control s >>>>>> also tried alt windows s >>>>>> nothing will turn it on. >>>>>> is there a trick to getthing this talking? >>>>>> I want to give ubuntu a try >>>>>> I gave up on sonar for the moment. >>>>>> Hank >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Blinux-list mailing list >>>>>> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Blinux-list mailing list >>>> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >>>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >>>> >>> -- >>> Christopher (CJ) >>> chaltain at Gmail >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Blinux-list mailing list >>> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Blinux-list mailing list >> Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list