can't load zipspeak

[Ameer Armaly]

I think I know why.  I use XP, and have ntfs for my file system.   How would I go about creating a dos partition if I don't have fdisk?  Is there another program to do so?  
Thanks
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Saqib Shaikh 
  To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca 
  Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 1:14 PM
  Subject: Re: can't load zipspeak


  I'm not sure about your problem without more info, but yes, Zipspeak has been updated to Speakup 1.0 and Slackware 8.0.  It's been on the Speakup site for a few months now.

  Saqib
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Ameer Armaly 
    To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca 
    Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 4:30 PM
    Subject: can't load zipspeak


    Hi list.  My  name is Ameer Armaly, and I'm a newbe to linux.  I've never successfully loaded linux before, for reasons forgotten.  Anyway, I tried it again, but now I have windows xp which doesn't support real mode dos, so  a boot floppy was needed.  I wrote a bood disk wit windows rawwrite.  It booted with "boot:", after which I hit enter without typing anything.  It sat for about five minutes, saying "mounting root...".  Does anybody know a way to help?  Also, is zipspeak updated to the latest speakup and slackware?
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