They need to put some sort of progress indicator to let us know how far the
installer is. Also it's imposible to select mount points.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Harford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 3:06 PM
Subject: installing ubuntu with speech
Okay since no one here seems to be coming on to the proper way to run the
ubiquity installer, the way that allows you to actually have speech, I
will outline it here for future interest.
After you have booted up ubuntu from the disk, it is, of course running
from the disk as a demo operating system. This is the weirdest thing I
have ever heard of but that is how it is and maybe someone else can say
why. It takes it about 5 or so minutes to boot up completely when you
will hear the start up jingle. Wait another minute or so and then press
alt (option) with f2 to bring up the application run dialog. Wait
another second, type orca, and press return. Now you get the orca start
up dialog in the terminal window. It will ask you a series of questions
to which you will be either required to give n/y answers or you will have
to give it a number answer. The first question, it wants you to select
the language, it will give you a huge numbered list of choices. I think
the first three or 4 ar english the others are something else. Anyway,
that whole process is pretty straight forward. When you have finished
setting up orca, it will ask you if you want to log out because
apparently you must log out for new settings to take effect. If you
should find yourself wanting to do this, you press y (yes) when it asks.
It will then say that it is logging out. This is not entirely true. It
is just bringing up the dialog to choose whether you will log out,
restart, shut down, hybronate etc. Press tab once and press return.
Orca does not, from my experience, speak at this point.
When you actually decide that you want to install the system using the
ubiquity installer do the following. Press alt f2 to bring up the app
run dialog. type gnome-terminal and press return.
In the terminal window, type "sudo su". Then press insert (fn+m) q to
quit orca. It will give you a dialog asking if you want to quit. Say
yes.
Then, without speech, type
orca --no-setup &
Press return. Now orca is running as root. From what I gather of this,
some applications run from the root account, rather than the account that
you are typically using. Ubiquity is one of these. Orca won't go across
accounts yet so the solution is to run it as root. Press alt tab to get
back into the terminal window and type "ubiquity". Now it should open up
the installer and it will have speech. Follow the directions with the
usual tab, enter, spacebar navigations. The only unusual thing you will
find is when you select your city. To move past this pop-up-box after
you have selected your city, or the city nearest you, press ctrl tab.
I have done this twice and it seemed that on both occasions, I had to do
a bit of prodding to make the ubiquity installer open after I was running
orca as root. There were a couple times I typed it and it didn't open.
It worked after a couple tries though. I wonder if you might be able to
run it from the application run dialog.
If anyone wants to read more on this go to http://live.gnome.org/Orca/
UbuntuEdgyEft
Justin Harford
"A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance
with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely
to mirror less what a man was than what he has become."
Fawn M. Brodie
