Try again a few years later

[Alex Snow]

no you always want /bin, /dev, /sbin, /lib on your / partition.
On Fri, 
Mar 04, 2005 at 06:24:21PM -0000, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yes, it is really a good idea to have another partition here for /home -
> this is what I have here.  Also, should we put /etc in a different
> partition?
> 
> Andrew.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of jim grimsby
> Sent: 04 March 2005 05:57
> To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
> Subject: RE: Try again a few years later
> 
> Hi, it should give you a swap partition a boot partition and a large
> partition for your files this is how auto works using disk drew it.  If
> I read the docs right this is normal and correct behavior for disk drew
> it.  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Farhan
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 3:59 PM
> To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'
> Subject: RE: Try again a few years later
> 
> 
> I've been trying to install fedora and it hurts me and makes me want to
> cry.
> Seriously though. when I do autopartition I select what drive  I want
> and it gives me 3 partitions after auto. So I'm stuck. lol
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Alex Snow
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 5:38 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: Try again a few years later
> 
> I found debian an easier install then fedora. The main reason I liked
> the debian install better was that one only needs one cd-rom or I think
> 2 floppies to do the install (the rest can be done over the
> internet) as opposed to fedora requiring 3 cds.
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at
> 10:37:21PM -0000, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  
> > Well here I am again, still with my Linux machine which I installed a 
> > few years ago and connect to via SSH, but no working Speakup install!!
> > I want to get a speakup install working, also want to try out the GUI 
> > applications if possible.  I know some aspects of the command line as 
> > I use it to maintain the server I configured here, but hope I can 
> > learn a lot more with Speakup.
> >  
> > Our local LUG seem to use the Mandrake distribution, which is very 
> > graphically oriented.  I am either going to go with Debian or Fedora.
> > Any thoughts on which is easiest to install?
> >  
> > Thanks,
> > Andrew.
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