I've got Slackware 9.1 and Windows 2000 Professional happily coexisting on a Dell Latitude C600 laptop. So, there's really no need to wipe Windows so long as you can partition off part of your hard drive for Linux. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 5/12/2004 at 8:21 PM Sina Bahram wrote: >I would disagree about having to whipe windows before installing linux and >then reinstalling windows. I have successfully done it the other way...just >installed linux on top...it's been a while though, but I did it with Redhat >7.3, 8, and 9. I installed fedora on another box, which I whiped; however, >I >do have friends who have done the same with Fedora as well. I also believe >there are people on here, but I'm not sure, whom I thought installed either >Mandrake or Slackware without having to whipe windows. > >Take care, >Sina > >No trees were destroyed in sending this message; however, a large number of >electrons were terribly inconvenienced. > >-----Original Message----- >From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca >[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] >On Behalf Of Igor Gueths >Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 6:46 PM >To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. >Subject: Re: new to linux, where to begin > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 06:30:29PM -0400, Chris Westbrook wrote: >> I am a computer science student home for the summer and thought maybe >> I'd >> get into linux. I currently have a laptop running windows xp pro. is >it >> possible to run two operating systems on the same machine or should I >try >> to get an old machine somewhere. > >Actually, it is in fact possible to boot the 2 operating systems. However, >there are 2 things to consider. Do you have unallocated space on your disk, >as in no filesystem? If not and windows >is hogging the entire disk, you're going to have to install Linux and >re-install windows. Based on my personal experience, it is easiest to >create >a partition for windows using the Dos version >of Fdisk, and then install Linux after the windows partition. > also, I really don't know much about >> linux at all. What distribution should I get. I currently have a >> braille >> note, and I've heard of brltty, but can I have speech as well? Any help >> would be appreciated. > >In terms of what distribution to get, that really is dependent on personal >preference i.e., do you prefer compiling from source over pre-built binary >packages? If you like compiling things >from source, perhaps Slackware is the better choice. However, if you like >packages there are different distributions you can look at i.e., Fedora and >Debian are the 2 that come to mind. I >believe Brltty does support the Braillenote display, however I am not >entirely sure on that. >> >> >> Chris Westbrook >> msn or email: westbc at clw19.com >> aol screen name: westbrookc19 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >- -- >Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product. >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQFAoqkjNohoaf1zXJMRAjrgAKCuICzV9aIxvuHxruVjpXwJ74DNGACglXfL >ilgmEgdNzLbnCFWCLNSHk9U= >=aCzy >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >_______________________________________________ >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 Stephen Clower, that guy from the south. You can reach me by any of the following: E-Mail: steve at steve-audio.net MSN: steve at steve-audio.net AIM: AudioRabbit03 You can also check out my little home on the web by visiting http://www.steve-audio.net
