-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I did this about a month ago with debian. Just clean up the hd, and install whatever distro you want, just like you would on a regular desktop. You may also want to look at http://www.linux-laptop.net/ to see if there are any notes/articles about your model. BTW, what's a dcm? Greg On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:19:59PM -0500, Farhan wrote: > Hi all, I have a couple of issues, and these are my options. > Back in February, I found a dell inspiron 2500 for about $450 on overstock.com. > When i got the thing, it had came with Windows xp home, I thought ok, fine what ever so i installed a screenreader on it, first problem. > The dcm was all screwed up and i had no way of fixing this, well after that i almost got a refund on it sinse i had no way of fixing it and I tried everything. > I finally reformatted and got a propper coppy of windows on it, and yeh, dcm is still screwed, so today, i was messing with grml on it, and it seemed to work. > Can someone please help me out here and help me turn this laptop in to a linux machine, this dcm thing is really geting to me, and i want to find something a little bit more useable. > The specs on this laptop are. > pentium III 800 mhz with 256 mb of ram and a 20 gig harddrive. > I have no external synth sinse the one I had well sort of got killed by a freakly high windstorm. > Is there anyway i could install grml to the harddrive, still using the swspeak kernel, and use speechd-up on boot up to get speakup to speak from there? > Sorry for all the stupid questions. > Farhan. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEOElI7s9z/XlyUyARAiHZAKDRQIREl7/I8BXgOEgP+SAyAA6gKgCfTi+j 7pLjPcBoHL1M4BRw350pYbo= =tBYj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
