Hello, Jared. What you said is correct. Mandrake has an install method called win4lin which will allow Mandrake to be installed to the Windows partition without having to use a partitioning tool like parted. This is done by creating a large swap file on the windows drive, and then installing Mandrake into that swop file. This of course will cut Mandrake's proformence, and the loss of proformence all depends on how fast your computer is. On new systems this is not a problem, but on vary old pentiums it can show to some degree. As for speakup enabling Mandrake this has been a dificult under taking. For some reasont the Official Mandrake kernels won't compile, screaming about the keymap file, when speakup is patched in. Forcing me to use the generic kernel from kernel.org. The reason why that is bad is that Mandrake's kernel has supermount, and so on which is used for drive mounting, and something I miss when using the generic kernel. The bright side is that emacspeak works ok on Mandrake, and that is one avenew to concidder.
