From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dsl092-170-086.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.170.86] helo=toccata.rednote.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16s3Uh-0004ZF-00 for ; Mon, 01 Apr 2002 10:13:15 -0500 Received: from localhost (janina@localhost) by toccata.rednote.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g31FDDa15423 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 10:13:13 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: toccata.rednote.net: janina owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 10:13:13 -0500 (EST) From: Janina Sajka X-X-Sender: janina@toccata.rednote.net To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Memory Considerations In-Reply-To: <000001c1d88f$b7d691a0$6701a8c0@twmi.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: 4gB is a bit tight if you intend to dual boot linux and Windows. If this is what you have to work with, do not install X as long as you intend to keep Windows. You'll need about 1gB for a full linux installation without X. You can access anyfiles in fat or fat32 partitions from linux. 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. Cood I then read off my > fat32 for stuff like music on the windows drive? If I use x2 for a file > system on my c drive will it be possible to dule boot? > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Geoff Shang > Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 9:33 PM > To: Speakup Mailing List (E-mail) > Subject: Re: partition magic > > > Hi: > > Ext2 is a far superior file system to fat32, so use that for linux if you > at all can. > > I personally think that having linux on its own drive is far easier than > having it on the same drive as windows, so do that if you can. then > cylinders don't come into it. I've never done dual boot on the one drive > but I'm sure someone else here would have. > > 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 > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org