I DID THE SAME THING, AND YOU CAN FORGET ABOUT mSBACKUP. it WAS WORTHLESS. took ME A WEEK TO GET THINGS ALMOST BACK TO NORMAL. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Murphy" <mweeby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 8:57 AM Subject: Back from the "parted" beyond. (f > > > Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 10:30:25 -0500 (EST) > From: Dan Murphy <mweeby at nycap.rr.com> > To: Speakup list <speakup at braillw.uwo.ca> > Subject: Back from the "parted" beyond. > > Hello listers. > Last week, I posted a question about partitioning a drive with Windows > already on it, and Parted was recommended. I downloaded it from the > speakup site and attempted to use it. Well I am now, sadly, only a little > sadly, "parted" from my windows partition. (grin) > I'm not going to blame the program, rather just my ineptitude and lack of > experience. So, now that I was back to square one, and I am not certain > whan I can get sighted assistance to reinstall the MS monster, I > partitioned the drive in 2 parts. The first 10 G for the eventual > Windows, and the remainder including a good size 345MB swap partition. > for linux. I have installed Slackware 8.0 on it, but I have a few > questions. When I go to use the installation boot disk with speakup on > it, after I type "ramdisk speakup_synth=dtlk", it loads up but it takes > something on the order of 10 minutes to do so. > this is a 500 MHZ Pentium 3 with 128 MB of ram. Should I rebuild the > installation floppy, or is there something I should type differently at > the boot prompt? > I must say, though, it is nice to watch Linux purr along on that as > oposed to this little P166 with only 40 MB of ram. > Thanks, and please excuse the rambling. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
