The answer to your first 2 questions is yes. Greg On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:11:38PM -0400, Cris Ali wrote: > Thanks for all of you who replied to my inquiry about the amount of Hard > Disk space needed to install linux. From the very many answers I received > so far, I got the impression that I can install a reasonably working > operating system on less than 1 Gig. This is what I was hoping to hear. It > means I won't need to buy a new hard disk. However, I also learned that > there are different destribution packages to install from. Four names were > mentioned, Slackware, Debian, Redhat, and Zipspeak. My questions are: Do > they all work fine with speak up? Do they all allow for a full installation > from beginning to end without sighted help? Where can I find a complete > list of what components I need to install, and what components to ignore? > > On a different note, I am happy to recognize atleast two names of old IRC > friends on this list; Bill Acker, and Raul. If you remember cris from irc, > that's me. I am glad to finally get a chance to get in touch and say hello > again. > Thanks for everyone who helped so far. Your comments are extremely useful. > Regards, > Cris > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup