Orca edgy not installing

[Janina Sajka]

For what it's worth, I've also been unsuccessful with the LIve CDR image
from about 10 days ago. I've been too busy to try again in the last
week, but will do so soon.

My issue:

The Live CD boots OK. Orca comes up.

I cannot start Orca as root. It just hangs, there is no speech after
something like "starting orca," and the terminal command prompt never
returns.

Would it be useful to set aside iso images for builds known to actually
work at some address somewhere? I can offer our ftp servers for that, I
suppose, but I'm not sure how it could work exactly.

Janina

Joanmarie Diggs writes:
> Methinks not all live CDs are created equal.  The live CD I grabbed a
> week or two ago from ubuntu.com/download works just fine.  However,
> given these reports, I just gave it another go using the image from the
> mirror at Argonne.  That image seems to lack the accessibility options.
> Pressing F5 does cause the list of options to appear, and theoretically
> pressing 3 chooses Screen Reader, but no actual screen reading results
> upon boot. Rather than play mirror-roulette, I burned a new copy from
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/.  It works as expected.
> I've updated the Orca wiki to reflect the above.
> 
> Of course, http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ will eventually
> be pointing to Feisty builds. And the official release directories
> (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/edgy/release/ and
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/6.10/release/) seem to only have live
> DVDs.... Is there anything that can be done to ensure that what's being
> mirrored will enable one to perform an accessible install?   And what
> about adding live CDs to the release directories?
> 
> Thanks!
> Joanie
> 
> Terrence van Ettinger wrote: 
> > 	I had a similar problem, and installing off the alt disk was a good
> > solution.  The alt disk installed easily, though you might need a
> > sighted person to help you with the installation; I can read large print
> > slowly and was able to squint through the installation though it took me
> > a while.  But the install itself went smoothly, and I am writing this
> > e-mail from the system in question.
> > 
> > Terrence
> 
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