I might try Ubuntu. Still hoping I can get FC6 installed and working, but we'll see. Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Norman" <cnorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 6:39 PM Subject: Re: question for GRML users > 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 at verizon.net> > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
