Back from the "parted" beyond. (f

[Gregory Nowak]

Well, you're assuming he's installed already, and maybe he hasn't yet.
Greg


On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 07:00:31PM +0000, Georgina wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've never experienced a computer taking 10 minutes to boot.  Something is wrong here.  Even when a check is forced, I wouldn't have thought that it took 10 minutes to boot.  If that's what is happening, it raises the question:  How are you shutting down the computer?
> 
> Have you looked at dmesg?  To see what was going on during the boot process?
> 
> Didn't you want to boot with lilo?  Is there a reason for using the floppy to boot?
> 
> 
> Gena
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 10:30:25 -0500 (EST)
> >From: Dan Murphy <mweeby at nycap.rr.com>
> >To: Speakup list <speakup at braillw.uwo.ca>
> >Subject: Back from the "parted" beyond.
> >
> > Hello listers.
> >Last week, I posted a question about partitioning a drive with Windows
> >already on it, and Parted was recommended.  I downloaded it from the
> >speakup site and attempted to use it.  Well I am now, sadly, only a little
> >sadly, "parted" from my windows partition.  (grin)
> >I'm not going to blame the program, rather just my ineptitude and lack of
> >experience.  So, now that I was back to square one, and I am not certain
> >whan I can get sighted assistance to reinstall the MS monster, I
> >partitioned the drive in 2 parts.  The first 10 G for the eventual
> >Windows, and the remainder including a good size 345MB swap partition.
> >for linux.  I have installed Slackware 8.0 on it, but I have a few
> >questions.  When I go to use the installation boot disk with speakup on
> >it, after I type "ramdisk speakup_synth=dtlk", it loads up but it takes
> >something on the order of 10 minutes to do so.
> >this is a 500 MHZ Pentium 3 with 128 MB of ram.  Should I rebuild the
> >installation floppy, or is there something I should type differently at
> >the boot prompt?
> >I must say, though, it is nice to watch Linux purr along on that as
> >oposed to this little P166 with only 40 MB of ram.
> >Thanks, and please excuse the rambling.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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