From: Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: Farhan <i.am.Farhan@gmail.com>,
"Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Turning my windows laptop in to a linux laptop
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 16:37:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060408233744.GA17220@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <372115903.20060408181959@gmail.com>
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I did this about a month ago with debian. Just clean up the hd, and
install whatever distro you want, just like you would on a regular
desktop. You may also want to look at
http://www.linux-laptop.net/
to see if there are any notes/articles about your model.
BTW, what's a dcm?
Greg
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:19:59PM -0500, Farhan wrote:
> Hi all, I have a couple of issues, and these are my options.
> Back in February, I found a dell inspiron 2500 for about $450 on overstock.com.
> When i got the thing, it had came with Windows xp home, I thought ok, fine what ever so i installed a screenreader on it, first problem.
> The dcm was all screwed up and i had no way of fixing this, well after that i almost got a refund on it sinse i had no way of fixing it and I tried everything.
> I finally reformatted and got a propper coppy of windows on it, and yeh, dcm is still screwed, so today, i was messing with grml on it, and it seemed to work.
> Can someone please help me out here and help me turn this laptop in to a linux machine, this dcm thing is really geting to me, and i want to find something a little bit more useable.
> The specs on this laptop are.
> pentium III 800 mhz with 256 mb of ram and a 20 gig harddrive.
> I have no external synth sinse the one I had well sort of got killed by a freakly high windstorm.
> Is there anyway i could install grml to the harddrive, still using the swspeak kernel, and use speechd-up on boot up to get speakup to speak from there?
> Sorry for all the stupid questions.
> Farhan.
>
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` Glenn at home
` Michael Prokop
` Turning my windows laptop in to a linux laptop Farhan
` Gregory Nowak [this message]
` Sean M McMahon
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