* RE: Try again a few years later
@ Andrew Hodgson
` Adam Myrow
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From: Andrew Hodgson @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Hi,
Yes, it is really a good idea to have another partition here for /home -
this is what I have here. Also, should we put /etc in a different
partition?
Andrew.
-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of jim grimsby
Sent: 04 March 2005 05:57
To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
Subject: RE: Try again a few years later
Hi, it should give you a swap partition a boot partition and a large
partition for your files this is how auto works using disk drew it. If
I read the docs right this is normal and correct behavior for disk drew
it.
-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Farhan
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 3:59 PM
To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
Subject: RE: Try again a few years later
I've been trying to install fedora and it hurts me and makes me want to
cry.
Seriously though. when I do autopartition I select what drive I want
and it gives me 3 partitions after auto. So I'm stuck. lol
-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Alex Snow
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 5:38 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Try again a few years later
I found debian an easier install then fedora. The main reason I liked
the debian install better was that one only needs one cd-rom or I think
2 floppies to do the install (the rest can be done over the
internet) as opposed to fedora requiring 3 cds.
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at
10:37:21PM -0000, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Well here I am again, still with my Linux machine which I installed a
> few years ago and connect to via SSH, but no working Speakup install!!
> I want to get a speakup install working, also want to try out the GUI
> applications if possible. I know some aspects of the command line as
> I use it to maintain the server I configured here, but hope I can
> learn a lot more with Speakup.
>
> Our local LUG seem to use the Mandrake distribution, which is very
> graphically oriented. I am either going to go with Debian or Fedora.
> Any thoughts on which is easiest to install?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew.
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
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+ /*
+ * The meaning of life, the universe, and everything. Plus
+ * this makes the year come out right.
+ */
+ year -= 42;
+#endif
-- From the patch for 1.3.2: (kernel/time.c), submitted by
Marcus
Meissner
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Try again a few years later Andrew Hodgson
@ ` Adam Myrow
` Alex Snow
[not found] ` <Pine.BSF.4.62.0503041328130.42398@server2.shellworld.net>
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From: Adam Myrow @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> this is what I have here. Also, should we put /etc in a different
> partition?
Under absolutely no circumstance should you put /etc in its own partition!
This is because /etc is required for boot, to read /etc/fstab, and startup
scripts. /etc/fstab tells what partitions are to be mounted where. If
/etc were on its own partition, it would be impossible to read /etc/fstab,
and the system wouldn't boot. That's a simplified explanation.
Actually, there are a *lot* of required files in /etc. Basically, /etc,
/root, /bin, and /sbin should always be part of the root partition.
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Try again a few years later Andrew Hodgson
` Adam Myrow
@ ` Alex Snow
[not found] ` <Pine.BSF.4.62.0503041328130.42398@server2.shellworld.net>
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From: Alex Snow @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
no you always want /bin, /dev, /sbin, /lib on your / partition.
On Fri,
Mar 04, 2005 at 06:24:21PM -0000, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes, it is really a good idea to have another partition here for /home -
> this is what I have here. Also, should we put /etc in a different
> partition?
>
> Andrew.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of jim grimsby
> Sent: 04 March 2005 05:57
> To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
> Subject: RE: Try again a few years later
>
> Hi, it should give you a swap partition a boot partition and a large
> partition for your files this is how auto works using disk drew it. If
> I read the docs right this is normal and correct behavior for disk drew
> it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Farhan
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 3:59 PM
> To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
> Subject: RE: Try again a few years later
>
>
> I've been trying to install fedora and it hurts me and makes me want to
> cry.
> Seriously though. when I do autopartition I select what drive I want
> and it gives me 3 partitions after auto. So I'm stuck. lol
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Alex Snow
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 5:38 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: Try again a few years later
>
> I found debian an easier install then fedora. The main reason I liked
> the debian install better was that one only needs one cd-rom or I think
> 2 floppies to do the install (the rest can be done over the
> internet) as opposed to fedora requiring 3 cds.
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at
> 10:37:21PM -0000, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Well here I am again, still with my Linux machine which I installed a
> > few years ago and connect to via SSH, but no working Speakup install!!
> > I want to get a speakup install working, also want to try out the GUI
> > applications if possible. I know some aspects of the command line as
> > I use it to maintain the server I configured here, but hope I can
> > learn a lot more with Speakup.
> >
> > Our local LUG seem to use the Mandrake distribution, which is very
> > graphically oriented. I am either going to go with Debian or Fedora.
> > Any thoughts on which is easiest to install?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andrew.
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
>
> --
> +#if defined(__alpha__) && defined(CONFIG_PCI)
> + /*
> + * The meaning of life, the universe, and everything. Plus
> + * this makes the year come out right.
> + */
> + year -= 42;
> +#endif
> -- From the patch for 1.3.2: (kernel/time.c), submitted by
> Marcus
> Meissner
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
>
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>
>
>
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* Re: bookshare?
[not found] ` <Pine.BSF.4.62.0503041328130.42398@server2.shellworld.net>
@ ` Karen Lewellen
` bookshare? Al Puzzuoli
` Hmm, apparently, I was wrong, was bookshare? Al Puzzuoli
0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Karen Lewellen @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
for some reason this bounced before so trying again.
> Hi folks,
> bookshare states that they have a version of their file decompression program
> that runs in Linux, but it is not specify as to what flavor of Linux. Anyone
> successfully using bookshare, and if so which distribution works best?
> Thanks,
> Karen
>
>
>
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` bookshare? Karen Lewellen
@ ` Al Puzzuoli
` Hmm, apparently, I was wrong, was bookshare? Al Puzzuoli
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From: Al Puzzuoli @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Hi Karen,
I haven't used bookshare with Linux but I believe that a packed bookshare
file is merely a password protected zip file renamed with the .bks
extension.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but if this is indeed the case, you
could probably use the standard unzip command to open them.
--Al
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` bookshare? Karen Lewellen
` bookshare? Al Puzzuoli
@ ` Al Puzzuoli
` Beth Hatch
1 sibling, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Al Puzzuoli @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Hi Karen,
Just tried this to confirm and it didn't work for me using Winzip. I got an
error stating that this is not a valid zip archive.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Lewellen" <klewellen@shellworld.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: bookshare?
> for some reason this bounced before so trying again.
>
>
>
>> Hi folks,
>> bookshare states that they have a version of their file decompression
>> program that runs in Linux, but it is not specify as to what flavor of
>> Linux. Anyone successfully using bookshare, and if so which distribution
>> works best?
>> Thanks,
>> Karen
>>
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
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` Hmm, apparently, I was wrong, was bookshare? Al Puzzuoli
@ ` Beth Hatch
0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Beth Hatch @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
Hello Al, Karen, and all,
Perhaps you could try renaming the book share file to a zip extension and
then try unpacking it. I can open zip files on the BrailleNote when I
rename them as bks files, so maybe the same will work in reverse.<smile>
Try renaming the bks files as zip, it may still prompt you for a valid
password however. Maybe it will work.<smile>
Beth
-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Al Puzzuoli
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 10:16 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Hmm, apparently, I was wrong, was Re: bookshare?
Hi Karen,
Just tried this to confirm and it didn't work for me using Winzip. I got an
error stating that this is not a valid zip archive.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Lewellen" <klewellen@shellworld.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: bookshare?
> for some reason this bounced before so trying again.
>
>
>
>> Hi folks,
>> bookshare states that they have a version of their file decompression
>> program that runs in Linux, but it is not specify as to what flavor of
>> Linux. Anyone successfully using bookshare, and if so which distribution
>> works best?
>> Thanks,
>> Karen
>>
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
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* bookshare??
@ Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 1 9 5 3 4 6)
` bookshare?? Janina Sajka
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From: Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 1 9 5 3 4 6) @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hi all. Finally getting round to learn about bookshare. Just wondering
if it is lynxable, and is the unpack console usable or is it x? Thanks
much.
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* Re: bookshare??
bookshare?? Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 1 9 5 3 4 6)
@ ` Janina Sajka
0 siblings, 0 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Janina Sajka @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Hi, Paul:
I have never had a problem using lynx the cat with the BookShare web
site. I have not had a problem logging in, searching, browsing titles,
or downloading.
I have also never had a problem unpacking my downloaded books, but
others are reporting problems.
It seems some people are OK, and others are not with the unpack tool. We
still haven't gotten to the bottom of what the problem is.
Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 1 9 5 3 4 6) writes:
> Hi all. Finally getting round to learn about bookshare. Just wondering
> if it is lynxable, and is the unpack console usable or is it x? Thanks
> much.
>
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