From: that one guy <Ma23@cris.com>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: questions about linux..again
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 02:03:58 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980629015119.11970A-100000@voyager.cris.com> (raw)
I wrote to this list a few days/weeks ago cuz i am thinking about
installing linux. I was told that it wouldnt be a smart idea to format my
harddrive so i could get win95 totally off and then put a dos vertion on
my laptop. Something about i would lose all the cdrom and soundcard
drivers.
Now, my question is, can i go to the dos box, make a partission for linux
and somehow tell it to install to that partission? What I see as the
problem is the windows 95 stuff being there.
for some reason, if i put a cd in the drive with win95 running, the cd
automatically starts up.
maybe i should just boot the machine in dos first and then do the
partissioning and stuff from there, and not worry about win95 or would
that even work?
emacs-speak is my next question. I was reading all the Howto stuff and I
followed all the links to the djgpp directories and i finally found it.
It looks like i have to have djgpp to even run emac-speak for dos. Is
that right? I'm totally lost as is probably obvious..smile
the next thing is, I here talk about linux boxes and all that, is that
just like a dos box or is it totally seperate hardware? and do i need it?
Wow, with this many questions already and not even having a cd of linux
yet, I hate to see how confused i'll be when i go to install it..grin
if I'm going to have to learn a new screen reader for linux, i might as
wel learn it first if i can in dos.
matt
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