Need help getting started with linux

[Janina Sajka]

But, if we're giving credit where credit is due, perhaps we should also 
note that Matt added speakup to zipslack in order to create zipspeak. Now, 
I don't know who on the slacware team is responsible for zipslack.
 On Mon, 
1 Apr 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> Yes, Matt Campbell got zipspeak going and off the ground before passing it over to Sacib.
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 04:26:32PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > Hi Saqib. Just out of curiousity, isn't or wasn't Matt Campbell the author and/or maintainer of Zipspeak? I seem to recall somewhere in the acbradio.org archives that he stated that he wrote the distro. I'm not out to critize anyone's credibility, I'm just out to get a fact straight. 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: Saqib Shaikh <ss at saqibshaikh.com>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 5:23 AM
> > Subject: Re: Need help getting started with linux
> > 
> > 
> > > Dear Justin,
> > > 
> > > My name is Saqib Shaikh. I am the author of the Zipspeak distribution. I
> > > also run Windows ME and actually created Zipspeak under that operating
> > > system.
> > > 
> > > If you contact me off-list I would be more than happy to help you, but
> > > briefly under Windows ME you can't boot into DOS - you are correct. However
> > > I thought I also included that for Windows ME you can create a WinME boot
> > > disk, and then place certain files on that disk and therefore load Zipspeak.
> > > There are also two other ways of doing it under WinME - namely installing
> > > Lilo or another boot loader or modifying your config.sys to act as a boot
> > > loader.
> > > 
> > > This probably sounds really complicated to you, so email me and I'll help
> > > you. I seriously think Zipspeak will be the quickest way to get up and
> > > running.
> > > 
> > > Saqib Shaikh
> > > Email ss at sjaqibshaikh.com
> > > Web site www.saqibshaikh.com
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Justin Ekis" <JEkis at sbcglobal.net>
> > > To: <Speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 9:21 AM
> > > Subject: Need help getting started with linux
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Hi everyone,
> > > >
> > > > Ok, I'm very new to linux  and I've got a ton of questions. Here goes.
> > > > Well, I'm ready to try installing linux. I'm kind of nervous because I've
> > > > been using windows since windows95 came out and it will be a big change. I
> > > > would like to set up the system so that if linux proves not to be for me I
> > > > can go back to windows without having to reinstall it.
> > > > I've heard that you can create a partition for linux separate from
> > > windows.
> > > > This sounds great, but how do you tell the system not to boot to windows?
> > > > Also the idea of buying a $50.00 or $60.00 partition program I'm only
> > > going
> > > > to use once and then forget about isn't very appealing. Are there any free
> > > > partition utilities out there?
> > > >
> > > > To help me get started I decided on the zipspeak distribution as my first
> > > > taste of linux. It sounded so easy to use because if I understood
> > > correctly
> > > > the readme says you can run it from the same drive as windows with no
> > > > partition needed.
> > > > I'm having lots of trouble though. I'm using windows ME right now and I
> > > > don't think it has a way to boot to the dos prompt.
> > > > The file says to restart the computer and press F8 for the boot menu and
> > > > choose the command prompt option and run the linux batch file from there.
> > > I
> > > > read somewhere that windows ME doesn't support dos like that any longer.
> > > If
> > > > it does I can't find the option for it in the boot menu, but then again
> > > it's
> > > > kind of hard to navigate around that menu without speech.
> > > > I know you can still run things in a dos window but that certainly won't
> > > > work for linux. I wouldn't think one opporating system would do very good
> > > > running under another. Lol.
> > > > Can I not do it that way with my version of windows?
> > > >
> > > > Sorry for asking so many questions on just my first day on the list.
> > > > Unfortunatly I get the feeling I'll have a lot more before I'm done with
> > > the
> > > > conversion to linux.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance for any help.
> > > >
> > > > Justin Ekis
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
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> > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > > 
> > > 
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