If I understand you correctly, and you want to make Linux its own bootable partition, then you should make Linux the second partition, and DOS the first partition. DOS/Windows does not like being on anything but the first partition. Gene >Any file named with more than 8 letters will have goofy names when seen >from dos. As for moving the dos directory, if you use something called >lilo, for linux loader, you could set it up to boot drive d as dos and c as >linux, as long as they're on different hard drives. You're boot prompt >would let you choose from /dev/hda1 for linux and /dev/hdb1 for dos if >things worked right. There's a lilo mini howto at www.linuxdoc.org. There's >a liloconfig in slackware, but don't count on it, as I trashed my windows >system when I tried to make a boot floppy with it. I think what it did was >put the loader on the superblock, where fdisk /mbr wouldn't fix it. I >wouldn't advise setting it up until you get linux on it's own partition or >drive, as zipspeak won't allow windows and linux to dual boot from the same >partition. >At 06:43 PM 6/28/00 -0700, you wrote: >>I have been using zipspeak on my D drive. Eventually I want to go to a >>full linux distribution but have some things to do before that can >>happen. Meanwhile, as my C drive is larger than my D drive, I would like >>to delete my present version, mmove the files on my C drive to D, and >>install zipspeak on my c drive. I am using DOS. I know I will have to >>leave the DOS hidden files, command.com, config.sys, and autoexec.bat on >>my C drive. Can I move the actual DOS directory to my D drive as long as >>I change the paths in my config.sys and autoexec.bat files?Also, do I have >>to copy files I want to save from my present zipspeak to a floppy using >>linux or can I use the DOS copy command?--Cheryl >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>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
