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 16s3Wc-0004aZ-00 for ; Mon, 01 Apr 2002 10:15:15 -0500 Received: from localhost (janina@localhost) by toccata.rednote.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g31FFCY15429 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 10:15:12 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: toccata.rednote.net: janina owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 10:15:12 -0500 (EST) From: Janina Sajka X-X-Sender: janina@toccata.rednote.net To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: RE: Memory Considerations In-Reply-To: <000101c1d89c$45d6fe20$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: Read the HOWTO I sent you. The questions you're asking are addressed in that document. On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Jared wrote: > 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 > -- 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