I got some sighted assistance and here's what I found out so far.
1) after the speakers pop on my equipment I have to wait about 2 minutes
then hit f1 then key in my user name and hit enter then key in my password
and hit enter to log in.
You hear chimes at login.
If you try turning orca with
I got the current iso to install. It wasn't too bad for installing
either. I'll find out a little later today how to work the login screen
so I can get orca up and talking on it too. The strange thing with
linux-mint is when I booted from the install disk I heard chimes then hit
alt-f2 and
