The way I wiped my drive was to boot to my external floppy disk into DOS, and I ran fDisk. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Stockton" <nstockton@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:31 AM Subject: Re: Asus EEE PC Just curious how did you format the drive and install ubuntu if there is no CD-rom or floppy in the unit? Did you boot from a USB drive or something? Nick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Georgina Joyce" <gena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 12:20 PM Subject: RE: Asus EEE PC > Someone wrote: > or has anyone installed ubuntu with orca or speakup? > > I reply: > Hi > > Yes I got one, it's great little unit but it's a difficult beast. > > It's easy to install Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy on it and get it talking. However > it has 2 problems: > > I can't get Madwifi working. Thus wireless doesn't work. > > It won't shutdown properly which is annoying but not very difficult to > stop. From memory it's a matter of passing a power management parameter > to the kernel at boot time. > > My biggest problem with it is that it is unbalanced. Thus if the screen > is tilted back in typical laptop position, it tips up. i.e. The keyboard > is lifted off the deck. The screen is heavier. > > The preinstalled stuff is KDE and very tightly tied up. The manual states > that you can't remove any of the preinstalled software and their right. > Unless you wipe the disk. > > Oh and that's another thing. I haven't found a complete version of the > manual yet either. > > Gena > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
