Back from the "parted" beyond. (f

[Angelo Sonnesso]

I DID THE SAME THING, AND YOU CAN FORGET ABOUT mSBACKUP.  it WAS WORTHLESS.
took ME A WEEK TO GET THINGS ALMOST BACK TO NORMAL.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Murphy" <mweeby at nycap.rr.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 8:57 AM
Subject: Back from the "parted" beyond. (f


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> 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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