From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com ([62.253.162.42]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16rgar-0003dO-00 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 09:46:05 -0500 Received: from genaj ([80.4.50.216]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020331144606.JNHT286.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@genaj> for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 15:46:06 +0100 From: "Georgina Joyce" To: Subject: RE: Memory Considerations Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 15:46:02 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <000101c1d89c$45d6fe20$6701a8c0@twmi.rr.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Reply-To: List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi I'm a little confused what the questions are on this thread. You can run X Windows on a 486 with 8Mb ram. If you have a machine with a 4Gb hard drive I'm guessing that you have more RAM thanthat. It appears that you have Windows on a 4Gb hard drive. Well, how much has it used. What is important is how much free disk space do you have and the memory, I guess, if you have less than 16Mb, which I suspect is not the case. If you're going to go ahead with a Linux installation you need to run defrag then resize your Windows partition smaller to create free space but back up I said, BACK UP all your critical data. Please state clearly what you currently wish to do with what resources. Gena -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Jared Sent: 31 March 2002 11:10 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: RE: Memory Considerations Ok I accually am going to put x-windows on my machine for some of my sighted friends to be able to use. How will this effect the memory needed? I will probibly be putting it on a seporate partition on meyc drive then for more room. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Geoff Shang Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 11:09 PM To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Memory Considerations On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Jared wrote: > All I have is a 4 gig drive that was what came with this. Could I install > redhat on this drive and have enough room to spair. I'm running Debian on a 2 gig drive. I'm running out of space now, but that's with 3 years worth clutter on there as well (and this system supports 2 uers as well). So I'd definitely say yes, especially if you don't want Xwindows (which you probably don't). > Cood I then read off my > fat32 for stuff like music on the windows drive? Yep. > If I use x2 for a file > system on my c drive will it be possible to dule boot? Urrrr. I don't understand the question. Filesystems are on partitions, not drives. So you could have an ext2 filesystem and a fat32 filesystem on seperate partitions on the same drive. Geoff. -- Geoff Shang ICQ number 43634701 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ 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