What happens when you don't go to an a prompt. That is the flopy drive on your computer isn't it? -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Ameer Armaly Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 4:04 PM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: which distro of linux do I use? I boot into an A prompt, but when I type "c:", it won't find it. It does however work on a lap top I'm trying to setup for my dad. How else would I shrink my partition? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Saqib Shaikh" <ss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 1:40 AM Subject: Re: which distro of linux do I use? > I would still say that Zipspeak would be the most convenient method of > installing on a shared computer. Could you possibly give more details on > what you mean by "it won't detect my c drive"? > > Do you mean that you can't boot into dos? > > REgards, Saqib > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ameer Armaly" <Ameer_Armaly at hotmail.com> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 7:18 PM > Subject: which distro of linux do I use? > > > Hi Guys. Well, I've gotten tired of waiting for the chance for a new pc > and decided to put linux on the family computer. I of course plan to > make lilo come up with a boot prompt so I can boot windows. I just want > to try linux, but I can't get into dos and run zipspeak because it won't > ditect my C drive when I try changing dirs to it I think debian, > because it can install over ftp, but slackware has an easier install. > Which one do you think would be good for a newbee? > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
