ready to run Ubuntu 12.04 on a USB drive

[Robert Cole]

Hello, Glenn.

When you boot up your flash drive into Ubuntu, you *should* eventually 
hear a drum when the system starts. When you hear this sound, you can 
press CTRL+S to start Orca up. At this point you can choose to Try 
Ubuntu or Install Ubuntu. In either case, you shoudl be defaulted to 
Unity 2D as it still is the most accessible of the two environments.

If you decide to install Ubuntu, you can easily install GNOME Shell and 
GNOME Fallback Session once Ubuntu is installed by the issuing the 
following commands:

For GNOME Shell:
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

For GNOME Fallback Session:
sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback

The last I tried it, the login screen seemed quite accessible to Orca. 
When at the login screen on an installed Ubuntu 12.04 system, you can 
simply press CTRL+S to get Orca up and running. I just checked it, and 
it even reads the menu for different desktop environment sessions (e.g. 
Ubuntu, Ubuntu-2D, GNOME, etc).

I hope that this information is helpful to you.

Take care.

On 05/26/2012 12:44 PM, Lenny wrote:
> Hi,
> I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a thumbdrive, and I haven't booted up yet.
> I will be using Orca.
>  From what I read from this list, I take it that most of the Orca users are
> using Unity-2d.
> Is this still the case, or have any of you found a way to install Gnome, and
> how difficult is that, if I go that way?
> If I recall, I will boot up, and as it goes right into Ubuntu, since it is
> on a thumb drive, I will need to log out, and do control + S, or should I
> call up Orca before logging out?
> Thanks.
> BTW, I get messages in digest mode, so how do I reply to the list when it is
> a message that is only in the digest message?
> Thanks again.
> Glenn
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