You can get partition magic to partition your drive. There is an option to create a fat or fat32 partition. Email me and I'll tell whare to get it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amanda Lee" <amanda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 6:22 PM Subject: Re: can't load zipspeak > Yeah but can't you partition off a piece of the HD for Linux such that it > has it's own format? I was going to do this with my new Notebook and now > you tell me! along with no lousy serial port! Guess I'll have to tear down > the whole lousy mess and put Win98/SE on there and I didn't want to do that. > sigh ... > > Amanda Lee > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at yahoo.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 7:01 PM > Subject: Re: can't load zipspeak > > > Hi. First, xp and linux can't coexist on the same machine. They just create > problems. You're better off getting something like win98 to coexist with > linux. This is because it uses phat32, and things like the debian > installation support phat32 for mounting hd filesystems when installing > rescue.bin and the bass system packages. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ameer Armaly > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 6:10 PM > Subject: Re: can't load zipspeak > > > I think I know why. I use XP, and have ntfs for my file system. How > would I go about creating a dos partition if I don't have fdisk? Is there > another program to do so? > Thanks > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Saqib Shaikh > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 1:14 PM > Subject: Re: can't load zipspeak > > > I'm not sure about your problem without more info, but yes, Zipspeak has > been updated to Speakup 1.0 and Slackware 8.0. It's been on the Speakup > site for a few months now. > > Saqib > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ameer Armaly > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 4:30 PM > Subject: can't load zipspeak > > > Hi list. My name is Ameer Armaly, and I'm a newbe to linux. I've > never successfully loaded linux before, for reasons forgotten. Anyway, I > tried it again, but now I have windows xp which doesn't support real mode > dos, so a boot floppy was needed. I wrote a bood disk wit windows > rawwrite. It booted with "boot:", after which I hit enter without typing > anything. It sat for about five minutes, saying "mounting root...". Does > anybody know a way to help? Also, is zipspeak updated to the latest speakup > and slackware? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
