Hi I'm sure he did in his first message on this thread if you care to look. Gena >Well, you're assuming he's installed already, and maybe he hasn't yet. >Greg > > >On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 07:00:31PM +0000, Georgina wrote: >> Hi >> >> I've never experienced a computer taking 10 minutes to boot. Something is w rong here. Even when a check is forced, I wouldn't have thought that it took 1 0 minutes to boot. If that's what is happening, it raises the question: How a re you shutting down the computer? >> >> Have you looked at dmesg? To see what was going on during the boot process? >> >> Didn't you want to boot with lilo? Is there a reason for using the floppy t o boot? >> >> >> Gena >> >> >> >> > >> > >> >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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
