From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailstore.rnibncw.ac.uk ([212.219.113.195]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Gtul2-00052C-00 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:40:28 -0500 Received: from WORKLAPTOP ([192.168.0.103]) by mailstore.rnibncw.ac.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:39:52 +0000 Message-ID: <006c01c71d7d$93eb0900$6700a8c0@WORKLAPTOP> From: "Chris Norman" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <001401c71d5e$d3438f60$6405a8c0@ALBERTLC7SN0ZA><005701c71d77$68aa3f50$6700a8c0@WORKLAPTOP> <001601c71d7c$c6599ba0$6405a8c0@ALBERTLC7SN0ZA> Subject: Re: question for GRML users Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:39:18 -0000 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 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Dec 2006 23:39:52.0377 (UTC) FILETIME=[A7A05A90:01C71D7D] 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: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:40:29 -0000 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