Hi, Is there a way to use the live CD and easily install it to my hard drive or will I need to go threw all of the tasks in the hand book? ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Hubbs" <williamh@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 12:45 PM Subject: Re: gentoo live CD does work with dectalk express > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Nick, > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:47:05PM -0600, Nick Gawronski wrote: >> Hi, I found that the gentoo live CD does work with dectalk express I >> typed >> at the boot prompt gentoo speakup_synth=dectlk nox and everything booted >> ok. >> Partitioning my hard drive with gentoo I can't figure out. I want my >> swap >> partition to still be the same but when I tried to recreate the reiserfs >> filesystem I could not find out what to press as the choices are not >> numberd. How do I go about this and I keep getting stuck in a loop where >> I >> hit the delete partition and hit no then can't get out of that screen to >> tell the installation how I want the partition. I want one partition as >> swap and one is / the root. How in the text based installer-dialog do >> you >> do these tasks? > > I do not recommend that you use the installer. The handbook will guide > you through doing an install manually. > > I never used the installer myself. I found I had no trouble at all > with the process outlined in the handbook. > > Basically, you use fdisk to set up the partitions the way you want them, > then you can set up the filesystems, format the partitions and go from > there. > > Let me know if you have any questions. > > Thanks, > > - -- > William Hubbs > gentoo accessibility team lead > williamh at gentoo.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGtMlEblQW9DDEZTgRAoNAAJ907WsQt5poz6FC1LPvlLQpDKRNbgCeL1q0 > qgHiSivEVTliFHZkE4nXq+Y= > =EHTw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
