can't load zipspeak

[Amanda Lee]

Yeah but can't you partition off a piece of the HD for Linux such that it
has it's own format?   I was going to do this with my new Notebook and now
you tell me! along with no lousy serial port!  Guess I'll have to tear down
the whole lousy mess and put Win98/SE on there and I didn't want to do that.
sigh ...

Amanda Lee

----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at yahoo.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: can't load zipspeak


Hi. First, xp and linux can't coexist on the same machine. They just create
problems. You're better off getting something like win98 to coexist with
linux. This is because it uses phat32, and things like the debian
installation support phat32 for mounting hd filesystems when installing
rescue.bin and the bass system packages.
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Ameer Armaly
  To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
  Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 6:10 PM
  Subject: Re: can't load zipspeak


  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?