Newbie introdusing myself and some newbie questions

[John covici]

You cannot or rather should not use the knoppix as your distribution,
but you should be able to play with it -- did you give it any boot
paraneters at the prompt when it comes up, if not it won't do very
much.

The way its set up now your synthesizer must be on com1 (ttyS0) and
at the prompt say knoppix 2 speakup_synth=your synth name and that
should boot the thing.

You can partition your c drive using perhaps a commercial piece of
software like partition magic, just have a good backup just in case!

Hope this helps.

on Saturday 10/11/2003 Krister Ekstrom(crisekstrom at bredband.net) wrote
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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.
 > 
 > - --
 > /Krister
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         John Covici
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