I think you mean: "fdisk /status", but I'm not sure what you mean by ovservation. Greg On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 08:21:56PM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote: > Hi, Glen: > > The term, "D:> Drive" is a Windows/DOS designation and not a linux > designation. Also, odds are great that it's not a drive, but a partition. > Are you certain that it's actually a second drive on your hard disk, and > not just a second partition on your first disk? > > To find out, run fdisk. You may need to shutdown to ms dos to run fdisk. > Be careful not to change anything you don't mean to change while running > fdisk. There is a way to run fdisk in observation mode, but I don't recall > how. > > Second point ... 200 Mb is not much these days. It's probably enough for > something like zipspeak, and you could probably get a native linux > installation into 200 Mb, but you'd have to work at it, and you'd have to > know what you're doing in linux to make it work out. > > If you're running zipspeak, you certainly don't need to repartition. Read > the documentation that comes with zipspeak. It explains that you put it in > a directory and run it from a shutdown to ms dos -- a DOS boot without > Windows, in other words. > > If you're trying to get a native install into 200 Mb, don't do it. Do > whatever you need to do to get more space available--at least 1 Gig. Even > if you need to get another hard drive, which can be done for well under > $100 now, you should get more space if you really want to install a > working linux. Of course, you could see about making more space available > on your current system by resizing existing partitions. The linux tool > parted is one that can do that, and can do it accessibly--with speech. > > On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Glenn Ervin > wrote: > > > does my d drive, which is dedicated to trying to get linux to work, have to > > be partitioned? > > If so, can I use fdisk to partition it? > > I would rather not partition it if I do not have to do that. > > that drive is 200MB and removable. > > > > Sincerely, > > O. Glenn Ervin-- (Lenny) N0YJV > > Northeast Nebraska > > gervin at kdsi.net > > or My Work e-mail: > > gervin at ncbvi.state.ne.us > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, > Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp > > Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther > King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at > http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp > > Learn how to make accessible software at > http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
