If you want to install Red Hat over the same partitions where you currently have Mandrake, simply go ahead and install. The installation scripts for Red Hat will take care of reformatting the partitions for you, and that will take care of eliminating Mandrake. You can do it all at the same time in the same process. May I suggest you use the Speakup Modified Red Hat Distribution rather than stock Red Hat so that you can have full speech support during the installation? Consult our installation HOWTO to learn how this works at: http://www.linux-speakup.org/ftp/disks/redhat/HOWTO_INSTALL.html On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Darragh wrote: > Ok, I'm nearly sure I'm using grub. Next question, How do I get the boot > loader to default to Windows again so I can get rid of mandrake and install > Red Hat. Remember, although I have a screen reader for windows I have yet > to install one for Linux. > > Thanks > > Darragh > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@afb.net> > To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 7:24 PM > Subject: Re: booting options > > > > Well, it turns out I had some time to look at grub's documentation. I > > still don't find grub as useful to a blind user as lilo is. Here's why. > > > > 1.) Yes, the documentation does say that one can get a Ctrl-G with the > > pause command, but then you must always act to continue the boot. As > > things stand for me with lilo, I can choose when I hear my two beeps--or > > let the system go ahead and boot the default unattended. Since my bios is > > set to automatically restart in the event of power failure, I have full > > confidence that my system will come up to default settings even when I'm > > away. And, when I'm present, I can choose nondefault ones, if I wish. > > Pause would not give me this flexibility. > > > > 2.) It is unfortunate that command line mode is only available by user > > intervention, or by the lack of a configuration file. I would prefer that > > it could be specified as a user preference. > > > > Yes, grub has some lovely features. But, it's quite clear to me the grub > > team had no input from anyone regarding the needs of our community. > > > > > > -- > > > > Janina Sajka, Director > > Technology Research and Development > > Governmental Relations Group > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > > > Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > > http://www.openebook.org > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org