I checked out feisty fawn with orca. There's very good news too. When the computer boots over here, the cdrom runs for about 30 seconds and then the cdrom stops. You can hit the f5 key and then the 3 key and enter twice and have a good expectation that orca will come up talking and put you in the orca frame. Running install from desktop or ubiquity still doesn't talk, but this should be manageable now with some correct keyboarding.
