From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from hagus.bright.net ([209.143.0.74]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16reFC-00070e-00 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 07:15:34 -0500 Received: from stargate (woos-max1-cs-29.dialne.bright.net [66.219.154.31]) by hagus.bright.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with SMTP id g2VCFQqB016662 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 07:15:31 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <003c01c1d8ae$5b3e4040$0100a8c0@stargate> From: "Thomas Ward" To: References: <000101c1d89c$45d6fe20$6701a8c0@twmi.rr.com> Subject: Re: Memory Considerations Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 07:19:41 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: If you plan to put x Windows on you can cut down a lot of the size by only using one desktop such as Gnome, and not installing the x development stuff. If you select your packages carefully I had X, and my favorite apps with in 1.2 GB. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jared To: Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 5:10 AM Subject: RE: Memory Considerations > Ok I accually am going to put x-windows on my machine for some of my sighted > friends to be able to use. How will this effect the memory needed? I will > probibly be putting it on a seporate partition on meyc drive then for more > room. > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Geoff Shang > Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 11:09 PM > To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Re: Memory Considerations > > > On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Jared wrote: > > > All I have is a 4 gig drive that was what came with this. Could I install > > redhat on this drive and have enough room to spair. > > I'm running Debian on a 2 gig drive. I'm running out of space now, but > that's with 3 years worth clutter on there as well (and this system > supports 2 uers as well). So I'd definitely say yes, especially if you > don't want Xwindows (which you probably don't). > > > Cood I then read off my > > fat32 for stuff like music on the windows drive? > > Yep. > > > If I use x2 for a file > > system on my c drive will it be possible to dule boot? > > Urrrr. I don't understand the question. Filesystems are on partitions, not > drives. So you could have an ext2 filesystem and a fat32 filesystem on > seperate partitions on the same drive. > > Geoff. > > > > > -- > Geoff Shang > ICQ number 43634701 > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >