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From: "Angelo Sonnesso" <asonnesso@coastalnet.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Back from the "parted" beyond. (f
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 19:49:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <004b01c19730$dcd426c0$7078f5cd@angeloso> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201051156310.324-100000@rocky.nycap.rr.com>

I DID THE SAME THING, AND YOU CAN FORGET ABOUT mSBACKUP.  it WAS WORTHLESS.
took ME A WEEK TO GET THINGS ALMOST BACK TO NORMAL.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Murphy" <mweeby@nycap.rr.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 8:57 AM
Subject: Back from the "parted" beyond. (f


>
>
> Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 10:30:25 -0500 (EST)
> From: Dan Murphy <mweeby@nycap.rr.com>
> To: Speakup list <speakup@braillw.uwo.ca>
> Subject: Back from the "parted" beyond.
>
>  Hello listers.
> Last week, I posted a question about partitioning a drive with Windows
> already on it, and Parted was recommended.  I downloaded it from the
> speakup site and attempted to use it.  Well I am now, sadly, only a little
> sadly, "parted" from my windows partition.  (grin)
> I'm not going to blame the program, rather just my ineptitude and lack of
> experience.  So, now that I was back to square one, and I am not certain
> whan I can get sighted assistance to reinstall the MS monster, I
> partitioned the drive in 2 parts.  The first 10 G for the eventual
> Windows, and the remainder including a good size 345MB swap partition.
> for linux.  I have installed Slackware 8.0 on it, but I have a few
> questions.  When I go to use the installation boot disk with speakup on
> it, after I type "ramdisk speakup_synth=dtlk", it loads up but it takes
> something on the order of 10 minutes to do so.
> this is a 500 MHZ Pentium 3 with 128 MB of ram.  Should I rebuild the
> installation floppy, or is there something I should type differently at
> the boot prompt?
> I must say, though, it is nice to watch Linux purr along on that as
> oposed to this little P166 with only 40 MB of ram.
> Thanks, and please excuse the rambling.
>
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Dan Murphy
 ` Saqib Shaikh
   ` Georgina
     ` Dan Murphy
       ` slow booting was: " Gregory Nowak
         ` Dan Murphy
           ` Charles Hallenbeck
             ` Dan Murphy
       ` Georgina
       ` Thomas Ward
         ` Kirk Wood
           ` Dan Murphy
         ` Janina Sajka
           ` Dan Murphy
             ` Gregory Nowak
             ` Charles Hallenbeck
               ` Dan Murphy
               ` Janina Sajka
                 ` Dan Murphy
                 ` Charles Hallenbeck
                   ` Dan Murphy
                     ` Shaun Oliver
                       ` Dan Murphy
                     ` Charles Hallenbeck
                       ` Dan Murphy
                     ` Gregory Nowak
                   ` Gregory Nowak
                   ` Janina Sajka
                     ` Gregory Nowak
               ` Janina Sajka
               ` Thomas Stivers
                 ` Gregory Nowak
                 ` Janina Sajka
                 ` Charles Hallenbeck
           ` Thanks BTBG
             ` Thanks Janina Sajka
       ` Back from the "parted" beyond. (f Shaun Oliver
         ` Dan Murphy
           ` Charles Hallenbeck
             ` Gregory Nowak
               ` Charles Hallenbeck
                 ` Gregory Nowak
                 ` Angelo Sonnesso
           ` Georgina
         ` Gregory Nowak
 ` Georgina
   ` Dan Murphy
     ` slow booting was: " Gregory Nowak
   ` Gregory Nowak
     ` Georgina
 ` Angelo Sonnesso [this message]

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