Hello. Does the mandrake linux come with the speakup software or is this graphical in nature. If this is a graphical interface, does the Gnopurnicus screen reader work with this? Tracy Son. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom and Esther Ward" <tward1978@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "The Man With His Guide Dog At The Tent Store" <dabneyadfm at shaw.ca>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 2:40 PM Subject: Re: Mandrake Linux > Hi, this is correct. Mandrake installs directly to your Windows drive > without having to repartition, and gives you a duel boot. How it works? > When doing the install at the boot splash screen you would press f1, type > win4lin, which puts Mandrake into the win4lin install mode. Mandrake creates > a encrypted swap on your Windows drive, formats a native Linux file system > inside the swap file, and then installs all Mandrake software inside that > swap. After it is done it installs and configures your boot load to boot > Mandrakw with XP, 2000, 98, etc... > Despite other postings Mandrake does have experimental drivers for NTFS 5 > support compiled into there stock kernel wich allows you to access files on > your XP drive. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "The Man With His Guide Dog At The Tent Store" <dabneyadfm at shaw.ca> > To: "Speakup List" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 2:54 PM > Subject: Mandrake Linux > > > > Am I reading this correctly. I can install Mandrake linux 9.2 on my > > Windows XP Home 80GB HD without repartitioning the HD or getting a > > second HD? If so, can I still have a dual boot system? All I see are > > RedHat rpms or Debian versions of software. How would I update or > > install software? Is Speakup and Emacs included with Mandrake? I would > > like to learn the basics of Speakup and Emacs while working with > > Gnopernicus. > > > > Angus MacKinnon Crest Saying > > Latin - Audentes Fortuna Juvat > > English - Fortune Assists The Daring > > Web Page: http://members.shaw.ca/dabneyadfm > > Choroideremia Research Foundation Inc. > > http://www.choroideremia.org > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >
