linux on a windows box

[Kerry Hoath]

you will probably want more ram, put a gig in the thing and use vmware.
I have successfully donethat on a 1.4ghz laptop; ram is the key.
2x512 sticks of ddr aren't that expensive; sdram is a little more so.
Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "alex wallis" <alexwallis646 at googlemail.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 6:13 AM
Subject: linux on a windows box


> Hi list.
> I'm very new to linux, in fact i'm really only used to windows.
> However I have a question I was hoping someone might be able to help me
> with.
> At the moment i'm using a laptop with 512 mb of ram, and a 1.80 ghz
> processor, running windows xp home.
> I'm wanting to get set up with a linux OS, but I don't really want to go
> down the route of jewel boot, and I don't have enough resources to run 
> linux
> under vmware.
> As I understand it it is very tricky to get a screen reader working in a
> vmware environment anyway.
> The option i'd like to use I found out about recently is something called
> colinux
> available from
> www.colinux.org
> I was wondering has anyone had experience with using this, and getting 
> linux
> setup using it and obviously running a screen reader?
> I tried asking on the colinux mailing list but Nobody seemed to no 
> anything
> so thought i'd come to you guys.
> Thanks for your help.
> Alex.
>
>
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