Here are the steps I took to try Linux (on a live CD) and then attempt to install it. I have Windows and JAWS on my first physical disk partitioned into c: and d: drives. I wanted to play it safe by putting Linux on a second physical disk. This second disk was just installed but it is not partitioned. I understood that the installing of Linux would perform the partitioning. I listened to a few MP3 podcasts explaining how to install various distributions of Linux. However, since the recordings, Linux versions have changed and I know very little about Linux ORCA and Speakup. I chose to start with Vinux. The Dr. Bongo's Vinux Development Blog site gives 30 steps. From the Vinux UK site I downloaded the ISO file and burned the live CD. This Live CD originally worked. Four minutes after booting I heard ?Welcome to ORCA?. Then I could tab three times to hear the help, preferences and quit buttons. I focused on step 23 which explains How to install Vinux to a hard drive as a duel system. It states that the 'Install Vinux to Hard Drive' launcher will allow you to partition your hard drive and install Vinux to it. I thought that the five words in quotes should be typed in the console. Step 13states: you have to press ctrl+alt+F1 from the running Gnome session or the GDM login screen. You can then use Speakup to input commands from the console I pressed control+alt+f1 and then typed: Install Vinux to Hard Drive (without the quotes). This produced an error which I can?t remember exactly. I could use the ORCA say lines keys (7, 8 and 9) to review the screen. The ORCA voice is a challenge to understand. Now When I boot to the live CD I hear ?welcome to ORCA? and then nothing. Now tabbing no longer results in the buttons being announced. Since ORCA started with the live CD I thought that it would guide me through the install to hard drive process. In retrospect, I think that there might be an application called a launcher. It would be helpful to have a list of command keystrokes for Linux, ORCA and Speakup. I?m even wondering if the different Linux distributions have different keystrokes. E.g. are alt+F1, alt+f2 and alt+F3 used by all the Linuxes? Where do I go from here? Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:56 AM Subject: Re: How do I get to learn Linux & SpeakUp? Re: How to use espeakup Peter Tesar, le Tue 22 Sep 2009 11:48:05 -0400, a ?crit : > All I have to work with is Windows XP and JAWS. I thought that it would be > easier to chat with someone on your Reflector. The information sent me > through this list service didn't help. Maybe I am doing something wrong or > nobody is there to chat. > > Your web site http://linux-speakup.org/ is not helpful. Then that's the place where things should be fixed. > I would like to get started using Linux. That's your question and that's what could be on the website if somebody took the time to write the text. > I haven't been successful with the distribution CD that I downloaded > and burned. Then it's probably a bug and in that case the mailing list is indeed appropriate: please precisely describe what you have done, and what result you got. Samuel _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
