which distro of linux do I use?

[Jared]

What happens when you don't go to an a prompt. That is the flopy drive on
your computer isn't it?

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Ameer Armaly
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 4:04 PM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: which distro of linux do I use?


I boot into an A prompt, but when I type "c:", it won't find it.  It does
however work on a lap top I'm trying to setup for my dad.  How else would I
shrink my partition?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Saqib Shaikh" <ss at saqibshaikh.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 1:40 AM
Subject: Re: which distro of linux do I use?


> I would still say that Zipspeak would be the most convenient method of
> installing on a shared computer. Could you possibly give more details on
> what you mean by "it won't detect my c drive"?
>
> Do you mean that you can't boot into dos?
>
> REgards, Saqib
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ameer Armaly" <Ameer_Armaly at hotmail.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 7:18 PM
> Subject: which distro of linux do I use?
>
>
> Hi Guys.  Well, I've gotten tired of waiting for the chance for a new pc
> and decided to put linux on the family computer.  I of course plan to
> make lilo come up with a boot prompt so I can boot windows.  I just want
> to try linux, but I can't get into dos and run zipspeak because it won't
> ditect my C drive when I try changing dirs to it  I think debian,
> because it can install over ftp, but slackware has an easier install.
> Which one do you think would be good for a newbee?
>
>
>
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