From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta13.adelphia.net ([68.168.78.44]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Exw0d-0007Ra-00 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:44:39 -0500 Received: from zeus ([68.235.251.98]) by mta13.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with SMTP id <20060115004408.FKLD8904.mta13.adelphia.net@zeus> for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:44:08 -0500 Message-ID: <000301c6196c$cb957590$6603a8c0@zeus> From: "Tom Moore" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <002a01c6192d$78ce5a50$6501a8c0@grandmasfury><20060114195427.GA29680@localhost.localdomain><20060114222740.GA7056@taylor.homelinux.net> <3DFB80AC-38DB-4913-95B5-302F99FB86F3@blindtechs.net> Subject: Re: help with install of debian and speakup!? Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:44:08 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 00:44:39 -0000 I don't think Fedora will install on 32 megs of ram these days. Think the minimum is either 64 or 128. Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "BlindTech of BlindTechs.Net" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 7:40 PM Subject: Re: help with install of debian and speakup!? >I run debian on a pentiium 66 mhz with 32ram. it is a great distro > and very simple to install, I installed it over ftp and its simple. > it again, as I stress, if you don't truely understand the technical > aspect of it, takes allot of reading. for example, I'm having a hell > of a time installing fedora, but i read, and read and read and keep > trouble shoting. I just don't think ty understands how boot up works > in general, hint, why he doesn't understand why he is getting an > error msg ffrom the bios advising him that there is no os to boot on > his hdd and he should either boot up off a cd, floppy or some other > bootable device. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >