Hello Mo, I used the link you provided to download the utility. I installed it. I invoked the utility but then I hit a problem.I could see a combo box to select a USB drive and I was able to select a USB pen. I could see several check boxes but these were not labelled and my screen reader simply said
check box checked or check box unchecked.there is an options button which takes you to a number of tabs each with various options.
Having selected my USB drive I do not see what to do next. Any suggestions? Many thanks, Mike. At 19:07 26/05/2014, you wrote:
Hello Mike.Many thanks for your very detailed message! i haven't had a chance yet to test bootable USB functionality, mainly because i'd need sighted help to set USB in my boot priorities. however, if you'd like to try it i'd first recommend you test it with Live Linux USB creator found at the link below. it should be fully accessible and allow you to browse to your iso. please ensure you format your hard drive to fat32 before the writing of the image. the link is:http://www.linuxliveusb.com/download let us know how you get on! Mo. On 26/05/2014 14:40, M F Mason wrote:Hello Mo, Introduction I have been experimenting with my old thinkpad T42 Windows XP pro system. This system had a built-in CD/DVD drive which no longer seems to work. Rather than trying to replace the internal drive I purchased a USB CD/DVD external drive. My first mistake was to plug this external drive into a USB port on a USB hub. When I booted my system, the external drive appeared to be ignored.My next idea was to plug the external drive into a USB port on the machine itself - ignoring the USB hub.1. I simply pressed the power-up button on my machine and waited. 2. I heard some external disk drive activity eventually followed by a beep from sighted assistance at this point, on the screen we see: Arch Linuxthere then appears a box of choices to which you apparently can tab to make a selectionscreen goes blank or freezes when I try to tab or cursor the choices are: boot arch linux (this is the default) boot existing OS run men tees 86 (not sure I have correctly identified that choice) hardware information reboot power off and at the bottom of the screen it says press tab to edit options pressing tab or cursor keys has no effect.(I think the screen goes blank and nothing appears to happen - must check this when I get an opportunity)pressing enter however, causes boot arch linux (the default) I hear more disk activity then I hear a welcome message as follows: thanks for using the talking arch live system. press control+c to skip this message and use the first available sound card for speech output.you are hearing this message because multiple sound cards were detected on your computer.To help you choose the card you want to speak a beep will be played on each card starting with the first available giving you ten seconds to press the enter key to select it.If all cards have beeped but no selection is made, the first card will be chosen automatically.Please make your selection. I then hear a beep from the first sound card I hear nothing having made a selection by pressing enter. eventually I press enter and hear what I think to be root@archiso Curiously Even when I disconnect the USB speaker from my computer and in Windows, go to start settings control panel sounds and audio devices find the audio tab and check that there is only one sound card on my system,I still get this welcome message telling me that multiple sound cards have been detected.However, there is only one beep. note on the numeric keypad It appears that: pressing numpad-insert with 1 reduce speech volume pressing numpad-insert with 2 increase speech volume pressing numpad-insert with 3 decrease speech pitch pressing numpad-insert with 4 increase speech pitch pressing numpad-insert with 5 decrease speech rate pressing numpad-insert with 6 increase speech rate pressing numpad-7 speak previous line pressing numpad-8 speak current line pressing numpad-9 speak next line Querysince I have been using a CD/DVD drive connected to a USB port, I thought it might be worth trying to create a bootable USB stick from the ISO image.Any suggestions as to how I might achieve this would be most welcome. Many thanks, Mike.