Back from the "parted" beyond. (f

[Georgina]

Hi

I'm sure he did in his first message on this thread if you care to look.

Gena



>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 w
rong here.  Even when a check is forced, I wouldn't have thought that it took 1
0 minutes to boot.  If that's what is happening, it raises the question:  How a
re 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 t
o 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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