I love my Linux, but I'm positively astounded at how quickly other blind folks are moving to Linux. I always expected it to happen, but it seems to be going more quickly than I expected. Seems almost every week someone who I thought of as a Windows mayven is saying just what you, Don, are saying. Downright, delightful, actually. Janina On Mon, 29 May 2000, djc wrote: > I agree Janina. I'm sure tired of windows crashing on me <grin> I got the > zip issue fixed and that's running fine and my linux is running great. > > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 5/29/00 at 7:37 PM Janina Sajka wrote: > > >So, Dr. Don, you're checking out this Linux thing, too? Seems it's > >getting pretty popular with us blinks! <grin> > > > >I must confess, I love it. Can't wait until I can do everything I want > >in Linux--which is definitely not the case yet. > > > > Janina > >On Sat, 27 May 2000, djc > >wrote: > > > >> Hi. I'm running Matt Campels speakup with the slackware. I want to put > >> linux on to a zip disk. I have an iomega ide internal 100 meg zip drive > on > >> the machine. I put the linux folder on the disk and I changed the load > line > >> to sda4 and then booted in to true dos and called my drive which is > drive > >> D. It came up talking ok so it found the doubletalk but near the end of > the > >> opening screen it gave a panic kernel error and said it couldn't open. I > >> read the readme.ppa file but I sure don't understand what to do to fix > this > >> so it will run from the zip disk. My linux runs fine off my c:\ drive so > >> all the files are ok. If anyone can advise what I need to do in order to > >> get this to run from the zip disk I'd appreciate it. Thanks. > >> mailto:djc at calweb.com > >> I C Q Number Is: 4781694 > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > > > >-- > > > > Janina Sajka, Director > > Information Systems Research & Development > > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > > >janina at afb.net > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > mailto:djc at calweb.com > I C Q Number Is: 4781694 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Information Systems Research & Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) janina at afb.net
