From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.225]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FSMip-0003Co-00 for ; Sat, 08 Apr 2006 19:20:03 -0400 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 70so564922wra for ; Sat, 08 Apr 2006 16:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.67.11 with SMTP id p11mr1984636wra; Sat, 08 Apr 2006 16:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from FARHANSCOMPUTER ( [12.207.220.117]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 45sm1772522wri.2006.04.08.16.20.02; Sat, 08 Apr 2006 16:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 18:19:59 -0500 X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.0.1.33) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <372115903.20060408181959@gmail.com> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Turning my windows laptop in to a linux laptop In-Reply-To: <004701c65b22$69c6a6c0$6701a8c0@quark> References: <20060408154507.GA29907@amelia.voyager.net> <004701c65b22$69c6a6c0$6701a8c0@quark> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Farhan X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list Reply-To: Farhan , "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: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 23:20:04 -0000 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 ev= erything. I finally reformatted and got a propper coppy of windows on it, and yeh, dc= m 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 li= nux machine, this dcm thing is really geting to me, and i want to find some= thing 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 f= reakly high windstorm. Is there anyway i could install grml to the harddrive, still using the swsp= eak kernel, and use speechd-up on boot up to get speakup to speak from ther= e? Sorry for all the stupid questions.=20 Farhan.=09