Mandrake Linux

[Tracy Son]

Hello.
Does the mandrake linux come with the speakup software or is this graphical
in nature.
If this is a graphical interface, does the Gnopurnicus screen reader work
with this?
Tracy Son.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom and Esther Ward" <tward1978 at earthlink.net>
To: "The Man With His Guide Dog At The Tent Store" <dabneyadfm at shaw.ca>;
"Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: Mandrake Linux


> Hi, this is correct. Mandrake installs directly to your Windows drive
> without having to repartition, and gives you a duel boot. How it works?
> When doing the install at the boot splash screen you would press f1, type
> win4lin, which puts Mandrake into the win4lin install mode. Mandrake
creates
> a encrypted swap on your Windows drive, formats a native Linux file system
> inside the swap file, and then installs all Mandrake software inside that
> swap. After it is done it installs and configures your boot load to boot
> Mandrakw with XP, 2000, 98, etc...
> Despite other postings Mandrake does have experimental drivers for NTFS 5
> support compiled into there stock kernel wich allows you to access files
on
> your XP drive.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "The Man With His Guide Dog At The Tent Store" <dabneyadfm at shaw.ca>
> To: "Speakup List" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 2:54 PM
> Subject: Mandrake Linux
>
>
> > Am I reading this correctly. I can install Mandrake linux 9.2 on my
> > Windows XP Home 80GB HD without repartitioning the HD or getting a
> > second HD? If so, can I still have a dual boot system? All I see are
> > RedHat rpms or Debian versions of software. How would I update or
> > install software? Is Speakup and Emacs included with Mandrake? I would
> > like to learn the basics of Speakup and Emacs while working with
> > Gnopernicus.
> >
> > Angus MacKinnon Crest Saying
> > Latin -  Audentes Fortuna Juvat
> > English - Fortune Assists The Daring
> > Web Page: http://members.shaw.ca/dabneyadfm
> > Choroideremia Research Foundation Inc.
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> >
> >
> >
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