From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org ([63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1EuFZI-0006h3-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:49:12 -0500 Received: (qmail 20259 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Jan 2006 13:48:41 -0700 Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:48:41 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20060104204841.GA20202@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060104201041.GA5949@taylor.homelinux.net> <000d01c6104f$a725c910$2cc69245@dataplus4puarg> <20060104202112.GB5949@taylor.homelinux.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060104202112.GB5949@taylor.homelinux.net> X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Subject: Re: help with linux and speakup? X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 20:49:12 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 One speakup enabled rescue cd is system rescue cd . It includes parted, and much more. As for the loadlin based distribution Lorenzo mentioned, such a beast does in fact exist. It is called zipslack, and it is based on the slackware gnu/linux distribution. It consists of a zip file which you unzip onto your windows partition, then edit \linux\linux.bat, get into dos mode, and just type \linux\linux.bat. Its advantage is that it can run off a windows partition. Its disadvantage is that it will only run on a fat16 or fat32 partition, it will not run on a ntfs partition. Do note that you will need to replace the default kernel that comes with zipslack, with the speakup.s kernel. There used to be a distribution called zipspeak, which was zipslack with a speakup kernel by default, and a few other modifications, but I don't know if it is still being maintained or not. If you do in fact have a fat32 partition and not an ntfs one, and want to go the zipslack route to start with, myself, or someone else on the list would be happy to give you directions on how to get up and running with zipslack. Greg P.S. You can find zipslack at . On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:21:12PM -0500, Lorenzo Taylor wrote: > You will need to repartition your drive as far as I know. The installer has a > partitioning program, but I don't know if it will resize your existing > partition. You may need to find some sort of talking rescue disk that includes > GNU Parted to actually resize your Windows partition so you can create the new > ones for Linux. You also may want to see if there are any Speakup-enabled > distros that work with loadlin. I can't really help you much with that, since I > have never used it, but I know it boots Linux from DOS or something like that. > But the best thing to do is try to repartition your drive. > > Lorenzo > -- > Be careful of reading health books, you might die of a misprint. > -- Mark Twain > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDvDSp7s9z/XlyUyARAtI9AJ4wNo+yHIAwBP5cpKuWGejWzlNt7wCfZCaP ovesU9gj3YX743b3BhejCbc= =8vA7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----