can't load zipspeak

[Alex Snow]

You can get partition magic to partition your drive.  There is an option to
create a fat or fat32 partition.  Email me and I'll tell whare to get it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Amanda Lee" <amanda at shellworld.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: can't load zipspeak


> 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?
>
>
>
>
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