Re: Memo: Which Linux build for Emacspeak

[Andor Demarteau <ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl>]

hi,
I can't recommand on the emacspeak way although I think that it's only the
editor emacs including speech support.
One other thing I noticed is that you say you want to install on a dos or
fat32 partition.
That is possible although not recommanded if your new to linux (it needs
the umsdos filesystem to do that, so it is possible).
I recommand in this case to sliceoff a part for linux usage using fips,
this tool will create a seperate partition at the end of your drive for a
maximum of secotrs that is complately empty at the end of your haddrive.
I done you can install linux on there and use the linux bootloader
(lilo) to multi-boot windows/linux).

And yes, it will run on your laptop
there is actually a side with all data conserning linux on laptops, but I
forgot where it is.
you can probably find it via http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP
look for the laptop-howto

On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Alex STONE wrote:

 > 
 > 
 > Listers, I'm sure somebody asks this question every 5 minutes, but I'm
 > new to the list, and I'm going to ask it anyway.  I would like to use
 > Linux on a fairly old Pentium Laptop.  I am looking for a build of
 > Linux that will work with this, preferably in a dos or fat32
 > partition.  Can anybody recomend one that works well with Emacspeak,
 > or advise me what else I might use to read the screen.  Also, can I
 > use a PC sound card to genereate speech under Linux?
 > I realist this is a very basic question, but I'm new to all of this so
 > I don't know what I'm talking about.
 > Thanks in advance.
 > Alex.
 > 
 > 
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slainte leat freisin (cheers to you also),
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