Newbie introdusing myself and some newbie questions

[Krister Ekstrom]

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Hi  speakup,

  My name is Krister Ekstrom and i live in Sweden. For a long time now
  i've been a windows user but have also from time to time taken an
  interest in Linux. Now, as Gnome- and eventually Kde accessibility
  is coming i begin to feel it's time to make the switch, take the
  plunge and start experimenting with Linux. Here comes my newbiesh
  questions:
  So, i was thinking i would use Knoppix as my distro. I found a
  Speakup enabled Knoppix cd and downloaded it. I tried running it,
  and no speach at all. This leads me to believe there may be
  something wrong with that distro and so i thought i might as well
  try downloading and installing something else. I checked the Red hat
  distro, and discovered that it required more disk space than i have.
  I have a big hard disk with 20 gigg of disk space containing Win XP
  and another disk with 3 giggs of disk space which i want to install
  Linux on, however this one's too small for the RH distribution which
  seems to require 5 gigabyte in order to be happy.
  I also looked at Debian, but it seemed much harder to install. What
  i wonder now is can i partition my C drive, (the big one containing
  WinXP) so that i could install Linux on that one and still make
  Linux and XP live happily with eachother, or what should i else do?
  TIA for any answers.

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/Krister
                           mailto:crisekstrom at bredband.net
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