You're absolutely right, I forgot about all the stuff in them LOL. Why not give Ubuntu a go? It's all the rage at the minute. Chris Norman <!-- cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk --> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Albert E. Sten-Clanton" <albert.e.sten_clanton@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 11:33 PM Subject: Re: question for GRML users >I tried that first. I didn't see a way to put the things that would belong > there in the /boot partition I'd made and put the rest in the /root one. > Unless I'm wrong, this is how Fedora and at least some other versions of > Linux get installed. My understanding is that this is a way to give what > you need for booting up--at least much of it--some extra protection > against > corruption. (My FC2, which was installed for me where I'd bought the > computer, had a small boot partition, a swap one, and the root one where > everything else was. I wanted to add a home one this time because of > common > advice.) > > Thanks for the reply, though, and more thoughts of course welcome, > especially if I'm getting something wrong here. > > Al > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Norman" <cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 5:55 PM > Subject: Re: question for GRML users > > >> Why not just use fdisk on the live CD, create your partitions, install > grml >> to one of them, and then update fstab when you log in? >> >> HTH, >> >> Chris Norman >> <!-- cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk --> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Albert E. Sten-Clanton" <albert.e.sten_clanton at verizon.net> >> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 7:59 PM >> Subject: question for GRML users >> >> >> > Greetings! This question's particularly for people who have installed >> > GRML on their hard drives, which I did last night. (I may return to >> > Fedora if I can find out either what I'm doing wrong or what it's doing >> > wrong when I try to install it via the CD images, but that's another >> > matter.) >> > >> > From what I've read and what the GRML install looks like to me, it >> > seems >> > GRML is designed to install entirely on one partition, which it then > makes >> > bootable. Has anyone installed it instead so that there's a separate, >> > small boot partition? I'd like to have a /boot, /root, /swap, and >> > /home >> > partition if I can. I'll be grateful for any advice, even if it ends >> > up >> > being that I can't install GRML that way. Thanks! >> > >> > Al >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.15/581 - Release Date: >> 12/9/2006 >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
