From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.42]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GtvVB-0005ka-00 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:28:09 -0500 Received: from ALBERTLC7SN0ZA ([68.163.231.97]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JA400GKZXAN2ID1@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:28:01 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:29:55 -0500 From: "Albert E. Sten-Clanton" Subject: Re: question for GRML users To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-id: <001701c71d84$a5d448f0$6405a8c0@ALBERTLC7SN0ZA> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal References: <001401c71d5e$d3438f60$6405a8c0@ALBERTLC7SN0ZA><005701c71d77$68aa3f50$6700a8c0@WORKLAPTOP> <001601c71d7c$c6599ba0$6405a8c0@ALBERTLC7SN0ZA> <006c01c71d7d$93eb0900$6700a8c0@WORKLAPTOP> X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:28:09 -0000 I might try Ubuntu. Still hoping I can get FC6 installed and working, but we'll see. Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Norman" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 6:39 PM Subject: Re: question for GRML users > You're absolutely right, I forgot about all the stuff in them LOL. Why not > give Ubuntu a go? It's all the rage at the minute. > > Chris Norman > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Albert E. Sten-Clanton" > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 11:33 PM > Subject: Re: question for GRML users > > > >I tried that first. I didn't see a way to put the things that would belong > > there in the /boot partition I'd made and put the rest in the /root one. > > Unless I'm wrong, this is how Fedora and at least some other versions of > > Linux get installed. My understanding is that this is a way to give what > > you need for booting up--at least much of it--some extra protection > > against > > corruption. (My FC2, which was installed for me where I'd bought the > > computer, had a small boot partition, a swap one, and the root one where > > everything else was. I wanted to add a home one this time because of > > common > > advice.) > > > > Thanks for the reply, though, and more thoughts of course welcome, > > especially if I'm getting something wrong here. > > > > Al > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Chris Norman" > > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > > > > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 5:55 PM > > Subject: Re: question for GRML users > > > > > >> Why not just use fdisk on the live CD, create your partitions, install > > grml > >> to one of them, and then update fstab when you log in? > >> > >> HTH, > >> > >> Chris Norman > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Albert E. Sten-Clanton" > >> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > > > >> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 7:59 PM > >> Subject: question for GRML users > >> > >> > >> > Greetings! This question's particularly for people who have installed > >> > GRML on their hard drives, which I did last night. (I may return to > >> > Fedora if I can find out either what I'm doing wrong or what it's doing > >> > wrong when I try to install it via the CD images, but that's another > >> > matter.) > >> > > >> > From what I've read and what the GRML install looks like to me, it > >> > seems > >> > GRML is designed to install entirely on one partition, which it then > > makes > >> > bootable. Has anyone installed it instead so that there's a separate, > >> > small boot partition? I'd like to have a /boot, /root, /swap, and > >> > /home > >> > partition if I can. I'll be grateful for any advice, even if it ends > >> > up > >> > being that I can't install GRML that way. Thanks! > >> > > >> > Al > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Speakup mailing list > >> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Speakup mailing list > >> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >> > >> > >> -- > >> No virus found in this incoming message. > >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. > >> Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.15/581 - Release Date: > >> 12/9/2006 > >> > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.15/581 - Release Date: 12/9/2006 > >