On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, John J. Boyer wrote: > I've just got my new Dell computer working with Windows XP, WindowEyes and > Cygwin. It has an empty partition waiting for Linux. However, this > partition has the NTFS file system. Does Cygwin have a utility for setting > it to ext3? you don't need it, if you install debian, it will overwrite the current FS by creating a filesystem on it. btw, may I advice reiserfs instead of ext3? performancewijse it's way better. > Once this is done, can I use dbootstrap from Debian? How do I > get the latest kernel installed? you could try, but I think it's either not going to work or not going to work as you would like it. Debian (asl all distro's) use specially prepared startup-dsisks. These disks have a kernel on it which gets installed and all support tools like mkfs and so on. > The linux partition on this machine will > be for software development and testing, so I'm thinking of installing > Debian Unstable? nice, but keep in mind, unstable does it's name really right form time to time :) > I will be using brltty as my screenreader. The machine > has no serial ports. WindowEyes works with a USB to serial adaptor and my > Braille Lite. Can I use the adaptor and the braille lite with BRLTTY? tricky one. As long as you tell brltty the correct usb<->serial device, it may work. However, I don't know how good the support is for this type during installation. > How do I make the machine dual-boot? I think lilo would work better for me > than grub. both will do fine for this. Positive thing is that for grub you never need to rerun it for new kernels :) > Thanks, > John > > > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: andor@xxxxxxxxxxxx student computer science www: http://www.nl.linux.org/~andor UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn,voip: do ask ;) ----------- chairman Stichting Studiereizen STORM www: http://www.stistusto.nl vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list