I don't know a lot about Ubuntu, but I've read that if you boot directly to the installer instead of the live CD, it will take a while but it will install and work fine with 256 MB of RAM. You might need sighted help, I'm not sure if the installer talks or not but it sounds like it wouldn't in your case anyway. If you don't mind giving it a try, I would be interested to know if Orca works after the install without booting into the live CD. Also, on a machine here with the same amount of memory, I always had to start Orca manually after it booted, even though I had sighted help verify that I was in fact booting into the mode where speech should come up automatically. Once I manually started Orca, it was very slow but it eventually came up. I would definitely not recommend running solely from the live CD because it's painfully slow but just doing an install is supposed to work. Martin McCormick wrote: > I did try the ubuntu live CD with orca and it did find > the sound card because you can hear the bongo drums but the 256 > megs of RAM are not sufficient to make it all go when booting > from the live CD so I am hoping that a thinner live CD will be > the answer. >
