Re: linux 4.0

[Ken Perry <whistler blinksoft com>]

Um he didn't say he was using dec talk he said double talk.

Ken /whistler

On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Travis Siegel wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Jan 1997 jruby pressenter com wrote:
> 
> > This computer is going to have
> > 3.1 gig hd
> > 16 mb of ram
> > external double talk on com 1
> > mouse on com 2
> > modem on com 3 irq 5
> > cdrom
> > windows 95
> 
> Not a bad setup.  This should be more than enough power to have linux work
> quite nicely.
> 
> > can I get linux with speech up and running with only one computer?
> > If so what would be the best way to partition the drive?
> 
> Yes you can, especially since you're using dec-talk.  Just grab a copy of
> emacspeak, and you'll be all set.
> As for partitioning the drive? That's really up to you.  Since dos/win95
> need to share a partition, and since dos has trouble recognizing very
> large partitions, probably the best bet is to make the dos/win95 partition
> 1GB, and give linux the rest.
> 
> > what type of problems might I encounter with win 95?
> 
> Now that opens a whole can of worms, don't go there in this post. *grin*
> 
> > can I have an easy multi boot function so I can either boot up in dos,
> > linux or windoes?
> 
> Yup, sure can.  Actually, win95 has it's own dos/95 boot function, so you
> can use lilo or loadlin to handle the booting of linux.  One thing you'll
> need to be aware of though, is that linux needs at least it kernel file
> and the boot info on the partition that handles the first partition of the
> drive (assuming it's going to be 1gb) because of the way the bios works in
> pcs.  This may be a bit troublesome to setup, but once it's done, you
> should have no trouble booting to linux/dos/win95.  In fact, you could
> even devote one partition to dos w/o95, so you could just use the other
> one for 95 by itself w/o having it handle the dos booting for you.  The
> way you configure the system is entirely up to you.
> 
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