Slackware 8.0 partitioning tools.

[Gordon Smith]

Hi Saqib

I see your documentation on the Slackware CD, good work.  I take your 
points regarding SuSE.  What I was thinking of may doing was obtaining 
Slackware, Debian, maybe Redhat as well as SuSE.  As I understand it, it 
should be possible to import packages across distributions.  Therefore, if 
I could somehow get a SuSE kernel compiled to include Speakup, then I'd 
have the best of both worlds.  But I do take your point about a lot of SuSE 
being X stuff, it sure is.  Regarding my partitioning problem, I think 
another reply to my message may hold the solution to this problem.  Looks 
as though it is to do with the way my system is laid out.  I shall 
investigate that one further  I am finding this list most helpful in many 
respects, so thanks to everybody who contributes.  One more question if I 
may.  Do you know of a beginner's guide to Linux anywhere?.
At 10:02 16/09/01 +0100, Saqib Shaikh said:
>Hello there Gordan,
>
>This is Saqib Shaikh; I wrote the Speakup documentation that comes with
>Slackware.  Firstly I agree that SuSE did something very good by including a
>braille screen reader within their distribution.  However, there are a few
>points to bear in mind:
>1.  You have 7 CDs and a DVD but there is only half a CD of console apps!
>Most of the extra stuff, like VMWare demo, StarOffice, RealPlayer, Adobe
>Acrobat and the list goes on, are only accessible through X.  I still think
>SuSE is a good distro, but also remember that SuSE started off as Slackware
>with RPM support, and then they began adding lots of X stuff.  In short
>Slackware is good especially to start off with.  In terms of partitioning
>your hard disk have you tried:
>cfdisk /dev/hdc
>That is pass the disk name as a parameter.
>Email again if you require further info.
>
>Saqib
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Kind regards, Gordon Smith.

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