Hi Doug, Thanks for the info. I'll try this. One question: is the zipslack 9.0 kernel speakup enabled? -- A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up yours!" On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Doug wrote: > Alex, > > > The drive I was thinking of is a 240mb maxtor taken > > out of a dead 486... > > It would make a good rescue disk. Beats using floppies > or cdrom ... with 240mb you could also install zipslack > on DOS and get a full minimal slackware system. Then if > you have trouble with your other drive, you can boot > from this one and fix stuff on the other drives. I like > the install.zip because it's small. > > ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/zipslack/README.1st > ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/rootdisks/install.zip.README > > The cool thing about the install.zip is that it only > needs 16MB, so even on a small disk, you can have a > small DOS partition and always have a rescue disk > on HDD ... I hate floppies ... I don't like cdroms > very much either. The more I can do straight from > HDD or network the better ... > > -- Doug > > > >-- > >A message from the system administrator: "I've upped my priority, now up > >yours!" > >On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Doug wrote: > > > > > Alex, > > > > > > > I may install another hdd to completely devote to dos. > > > > > > The DOS (FAT16) file system only goes up to 2GB ... > > > What I do is put a 300MB DOS partition on every machine. > > > It's wild but those "windows bundles" I spoke of hold > > > the *entire* windows 2000 install bits in approx 250MB. > > > They are compressed and they extract. So I wouldn't > > > devote a whole drive to DOS ... a nice small partition > > > will do it ... > > > > > > -- Doug > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 >
