i Janina, Yes, I will be taking into consideration your guidelines posted in the how-to when I reinstall Linux, especially with the partitions as you suggested. I hope the speakup issue gets fixed as well, glad I'm not the only one experiencing weird issues with the Dectalk Express. Take care and thanks again, Beth Janina Sajka wrote: > You can expect any laptop you buy with some OS already installed will > have consumed most, if not all the available hd. Either you resize with > some tool, or delete partitions and reconfigure. No surprise there. > > I would strongly suggest you not blithely install Linux on a single > partition. At the very least, I strongly suggest a separate partition > for /home. Please consider the guidance re such decisioning provided in > our installation HOWTO: > > http://SpeakupModified.Org/HOWTO_INSTALL.html#diskdruid > > > Beth Hatch writes: > >> Re: Thinkpad Saga Continues >> Hi Sean and all, >> >> That's a really good question!<smile> Yes, Fedora did notice my >> Windows partition. The problem was that the way that Lenovo made the >> partitions, according >> to my Linux instructor, meant that we had to break the existing >> partitions before installing Linux and then fix grub to recognize what >> we had done. >> The computer was broken into one 30 gigabyte partition and another 90 >> GB partition. Since there wasn't enough room on the smaller partition, >> we had >> to use the bigger one in order to put Linux on one 45 GB partition and >> Windows on the other 45 GB partion we then made. this meant that we had >> to temporarily >> remove Windows to build the new partitions. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
