From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 4131 invoked from network); 29 Jun 1998 06:04:10 -0000 Received: from uhura.concentric.net (206.173.119.93) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 Jun 1998 06:04:10 -0000 Received: from voyager.cris.com (voyager [206.173.119.82]) by uhura.concentric.net (8.8.8/(98/05/18 5.10)) id CAA14181; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 02:03:59 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Errors-To: Received: from localhost by voyager.cris.com (8.8.5) id CAA12878; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 02:03:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 02:03:58 -0400 (EDT) From: that one guy To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: questions about linux..again Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: 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