My laptop is a Dell. It has one slot for the cdrom or floppy. However, if I want to use the floppy while the cd is in the slot, there is a cable wich can connect the floppy to the parellel port. Terry -----Original Message----- From: brent harding [mailto:bharding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 3:14 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: RE: Hello all Is there a speaking CD available for installing debian? I have a laptop with one of those drive bays that you swap the drives, so I'd either have to install from all floppies or all CD. My laptop has a bigger hard drive so I can't really transfer my partition over and recompile for dectalk express. At 03:55 PM 6/28/00 -0400, you wrote: >Hi Terry, >And I thought I'd been around UNIX for a long time, my first exposure was >with SUN/OS around 1992. By the way, Bill Acker is the ultimate authority >on which disk names are what, because he built the Redhat ones. Though >I've been programming in C since about the mid 80s, I know nothing about >kernel hacking or drivers. I sure want to learn though! > > PPP would be a very tough go for installing Linux. I'm not even sure I'd >want to try it from my cable modem--but the time required on a 56K >connection would be ridiculous. Go with the CD! > > Jim WB0TFK > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
