accessible standalone computer imaging program?

Dave

4 Nov 2008 4 Nov '08

7:09 p.m.

Hello, My recent experience with my laptop has shown that i am in need of an accessible flexible imaging solution. I tried ghost specifically 2007, but since they moved to a CD system as opposed to the old floppies which i could batch script that wasn't workable without sighted assistance. And when i got it ghost wouldn't see the USB external hard disk, i'm not sure but i think that reason was due to the fact that it was a 500 gb hd and formatted ntfs, i'd like for this to be doable. Thanks. Dave.

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Philip

5 Nov 5 Nov

2:43 a.m.

Take a look at terabyteunlimited. I just got their image for windows program. if you buy the total package, which I did, it costs about $49 u.s. you get a boot manipulation program called bootitng, image for windows, image for dos, and image for Linux along with a set of utilities to make installing operating system easier. I just tried it, and I was able to make an image of my dual boot system, dos on the first partition and windows on a logical partition. I restored them to a different drive and I was able to boot the new drive. everything is extremely jaws accessible, even the image for dos program. Their documentation needs a little work, but if you play around, it can work. Their tech support seems to be pretty good. The company sponsors some news groups for their products too. I highly recommend them. I did all this not only to help me at home, but to solve a problem of imaging all our computers at work. by the way, you can download a trial version of their products to try out. so far, I am impressed. My next project is to make a bootable cd with dos and jaws for dos in a ram drive. if you need any more info, just ask. Phil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave" To: "'Blind sysadmins list'" Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 2:09 PM Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible standalone computer imaging program?

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Hello, My recent experience with my laptop has shown that i am in need of an accessible flexible imaging solution. I tried ghost specifically 2007, but since they moved to a CD system as opposed to the old floppies which i could batch script that wasn't workable without sighted assistance. And when i got it ghost wouldn't see the USB external hard disk, i'm not sure but i think that reason was due to the fact that it was a 500 gb hd and formatted ntfs, i'd like for this to be doable. Thanks. Dave.

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Steve Matzura

20 Nov 20 Nov

11:57 p.m.

Philip, this all sounds great, just one thing you neglected to clarify, or I didn't get, and that is, what's the accessibility like if you have to restore a boot drive from scratch? In other words, my PC came up dead, hard disk was replaced, now I have lots of images and things, what do I do with them, or, more accurately, what do I do to prepare them properly so they speak when needed? On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 21:43:45 -0500, you wrote:

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Take a look at terabyteunlimited. I just got their image for windows program. if you buy the total package, which I did, it costs about $49 u.s. you get a boot manipulation program called bootitng, image for windows, image for dos, and image for Linux along with a set of utilities to make installing operating system easier. I just tried it, and I was able to make an image of my dual boot system, dos on the first partition and windows on a logical partition. I restored them to a different drive and I was able to boot the new drive. everything is extremely jaws accessible, even the image for dos program. Their documentation needs a little work, but if you play around, it can work. Their tech support seems to be pretty good. The company sponsors some news groups for their products too. I highly recommend them. I did all this not only to help me at home, but to solve a problem of imaging all our computers at work. by the way, you can download a trial version of their products to try out. so far, I am impressed. My next project is to make a bootable cd with dos and jaws for dos in a ram drive. if you need any more info, just ask.

Phil

----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave" To: "'Blind sysadmins list'" Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 2:09 PM Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible standalone computer imaging program?

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Hello, My recent experience with my laptop has shown that i am in need of an accessible flexible imaging solution. I tried ghost specifically 2007, but since they moved to a CD system as opposed to the old floppies which i could batch script that wasn't workable without sighted assistance. And when i got it ghost wouldn't see the USB external hard disk, i'm not sure but i think that reason was due to the fact that it was a 500 gb hd and formatted ntfs, i'd like for this to be doable. Thanks. Dave.

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Philip

22 Nov 22 Nov

4:57 p.m.

New subject: accessible standalone computer imagingprogram?

well, if you have a hardware synthesizer, you could boot from either a floppy or bootable cd into dos and run a screen reader for dos such as jaws for dos, or vocaleyes or asap. the image for dos is extremely accessible. I haven't tried this yet, but i suspect that a bootable linux cd could be made up with one of the linux screenreaders such as brlterm? not sure of its name, the one that works with braille displays, or speakup, or one of the others. some of the linux screen readers will work with software synthesizers as well as hardware. hope this helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Matzura" To: "Blind sysadmins list" Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible standalone computer imagingprogram?

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Philip, this all sounds great, just one thing you neglected to clarify, or I didn't get, and that is, what's the accessibility like if you have to restore a boot drive from scratch? In other words, my PC came up dead, hard disk was replaced, now I have lots of images and things, what do I do with them, or, more accurately, what do I do to prepare them properly so they speak when needed?

On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 21:43:45 -0500, you wrote:

...
Take a look at terabyteunlimited. I just got their image for windows program. if you buy the total package, which I did, it costs about $49 u.s. you get a boot manipulation program called bootitng, image for windows, image for dos, and image for Linux along with a set of utilities to make installing operating system easier. I just tried it, and I was able to make an image of my dual boot system, dos on the first partition and windows on a logical partition. I restored them to a different drive and I was able to boot the new drive. everything is extremely jaws accessible, even the image for dos program. Their documentation needs a little work, but if you play around, it can work. Their tech support seems to be pretty good. The company sponsors some news groups for their products too. I highly recommend them. I did all this not only to help me at home, but to solve a problem of imaging all our computers at work. by the way, you can download a trial version of their products to try out. so far, I am impressed. My next project is to make a bootable cd with dos and jaws for dos in a ram drive. if you need any more info, just ask.

Phil

----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave" To: "'Blind sysadmins list'" Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 2:09 PM Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible standalone computer imaging program?

...
Hello, My recent experience with my laptop has shown that i am in need of an accessible flexible imaging solution. I tried ghost specifically 2007, but since they moved to a CD system as opposed to the old floppies which i could batch script that wasn't workable without sighted assistance. And when i got it ghost wouldn't see the USB external hard disk, i'm not sure but i think that reason was due to the fact that it was a 500 gb hd and formatted ntfs, i'd like for this to be doable. Thanks. Dave.

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Brent Harding

10:01 p.m.

New subject: floppy or CD that will load USB and then cause it to be booted?

Hi there. Is there an easy way to make a floppy or CD that will have a boot loader on it that will then boot up whatever OS I want off of an external USB hard drive? I want to install Ubuntu with Orca on an external drive, but I have no way of booting it because as far as I know, my board has no bios support for USB booting. Maybe some boot loader installed on a floppy or CD could do it. I'd rather not have to play around with repartitioning and dealing with FS for lots of reactivations if I adjust the size, or enter the wrong command and wipe Windows out as well. Is there a good way to do this? Maybe I can flash the Bios, but friends have created more trouble with that, and I don't want to replace lots of components just to get USB booting.

Andrew Hodgson

10:25 p.m.

New subject: floppy or CD that will load USB and then cause it to be booted?

Hi, This looks interesting: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/11/15/usb-boot-cd-for-ubuntu-810/ Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Brent Harding Sent: 22 November 2008 22:02 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] floppy or CD that will load USB and then cause it to be booted? Hi there. Is there an easy way to make a floppy or CD that will have a boot loader on it that will then boot up whatever OS I want off of an external USB hard drive? I want to install Ubuntu with Orca on an external drive, but I have no way of booting it because as far as I know, my board has no bios support for USB booting. Maybe some boot loader installed on a floppy or CD could do it. I'd rather not have to play around with repartitioning and dealing with FS for lots of reactivations if I adjust the size, or enter the wrong command and wipe Windows out as well. Is there a good way to do this? Maybe I can flash the Bios, but friends have created more trouble with that, and I don't want to replace lots of components just to get USB booting. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

Andrew Hodgson

10:25 p.m.

New subject: floppy or CD that will load USB and then cause it to be booted?

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