I too had sighted assistance, my young son read the BIOS and some things in DOS for the re-partitioning. It wasn't difficult, he doesn't know anything about any of that, but since I do, it went well. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Georgina Joyce" <gena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup List" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 3:18 PM Subject: Asus EEE PC Hi I should have also stated that I required sighted help to adjust the boot sequence in the bios. Then I let Ubuntu handle the partitioning. Gena 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 Gena M0EBP _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
