From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.192.81]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HcxVH-0006Bs-00 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:42:24 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (c-68-35-178-113.hsd1.nm.comcast.net[68.35.178.113]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20070415054152m11005gcjle>; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:41:53 +0000 Message-ID: <4621BB36.1020709@comcast.net> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:42:14 -0600 From: Beth Hatch User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Thinkpad Saga Continues References: <461EFF2E.6000906@comcast.net> <20070414162232.GH26256@rednote.net> In-Reply-To: <20070414162232.GH26256@rednote.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:42:24 -0000 i Janina, Yes, I will be taking into consideration your guidelines posted in the how-to when I reinstall Linux, especially with the partitions as you suggested. I hope the speakup issue gets fixed as well, glad I'm not the only one experiencing weird issues with the Dectalk Express. Take care and thanks again, Beth Janina Sajka wrote: > You can expect any laptop you buy with some OS already installed will > have consumed most, if not all the available hd. Either you resize with > some tool, or delete partitions and reconfigure. No surprise there. > > I would strongly suggest you not blithely install Linux on a single > partition. At the very least, I strongly suggest a separate partition > for /home. Please consider the guidance re such decisioning provided in > our installation HOWTO: > > http://SpeakupModified.Org/HOWTO_INSTALL.html#diskdruid > > > Beth Hatch writes: > >> Re: Thinkpad Saga Continues >> Hi Sean and all, >> >> That's a really good question! Yes, Fedora did notice my >> Windows partition. The problem was that the way that Lenovo made the >> partitions, according >> to my Linux instructor, meant that we had to break the existing >> partitions before installing Linux and then fix grub to recognize what >> we had done. >> The computer was broken into one 30 gigabyte partition and another 90 >> GB partition. Since there wasn't enough room on the smaller partition, >> we had >> to use the bigger one in order to put Linux on one 45 GB partition and >> Windows on the other 45 GB partion we then made. this meant that we had >> to temporarily >> remove Windows to build the new partitions. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >