Installing Windows was: speakup is nice

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Mon Jan 19 11:12:25 EST 2009


Windows doesn't have SATA drivers? How quaint?

I've also heard their 64-bit support is behind. Is that so?

Janina

Tyler Littlefield writes:
> I've got xp. right now, the only thing stopping me from going totally 
> with that rather than with this crap they load is the fact that I can't 
> get sata drivers, and any other xp install doesn't recognize it.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Tyler Littlefield
> http://tysdomain.com
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" 
> <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:23 PM
> Subject: Re: Installing Windows was: speakup is nice
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>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:53:25AM -0600, John G. Heim wrote:
>>> Oh, shoot! One more major drawback. It doesn't work with Vista. Only
>>> Windows XP. I'd presume though that you could install XP, install speech,
>>> and then upgrade to Vista. That used to work when upgrading from 95 or ME
>>> to XP.
>>
>> The other drawback I see here too is that this requires you to have
>> both legal copies of xp, and an upgrade copy of vista. This could be
>> quite expensive, assuming you want to go legal of course. Also, this
>> is fine, as long as it's still possible to buy a copy of xp. However,
>> once those stop being sold, and you don't have one before that
>> happens, you're probably out of luck.
>>
>> Greg
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