Installing Windows was: speakup is nice

[Nick Dotson]

Often booting from a CD is a BIOS option--bummer for us if turned off 
initially...

Nick


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler at tysdomain.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: Installing Windows was: speakup is nice


>> Windows doesn't have SATA drivers? How quaint?
> It does, but you can't boot with a normal cd, least not the ones I have, 
> if
> you buy a laptop from gw, and toshiba for sure. You need to make an image 
> of
> the cd with the extracted driver, which I haven't had the pacients to do.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Nick Dotson" <nickdotson at bellsouth.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 3:28 PM
> Subject: Re: Installing Windows was: speakup is nice
>
>
>> Wrong!  I'm using them under XP Home Pro and Vista.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 10:12 AM
>> Subject: Re: Installing Windows was: speakup is nice
>>
>>
>>> 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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