Fedora core 3 and oralux

Brent Harding bharding at doorpi.net
Fri Feb 25 08:07:47 UTC 2005


Well, the way I did it was to copy the boot manager to the disk only, but I
put it on my hard drive first. I did something like
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/fd0 count=512
The first 512 bytes of the hard drive is the boot sector. Then I did grub -u
to get it off the hard drive.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shaun Everiss" <shaun.e at xtra.co.nz>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: Fedora core 3 and oralux


> I have fedora core 3.
> When I install it, instead of creating the boot manager could I have it on
my hard disk but get it to create a boot disk during install so I could boot
from it when I wanted to?
> That would solve a lot of problems.
> At 02:34 p.m. 25/02/2005, you wrote:
> >I use a boot floppy to start linux when I want it. I got fedora core 2,
> >should really upgrade to 3. I just use it in text mode, haven't figured
out
> >gnopernicus yet, since there's not necessarily the best docs on
installing
> >it. You partition your hard drive in two partitions, one for dos and
> >windows, and one for linux. In my case, I use a separate hard drive,
since I
> >had one from before I upgraded my primary one.
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: "Shaun Everiss" <shaun.e at xtra.co.nz>
> >To: <blinux-list at redhat.com>; <blinuxlist at redhat.com>
> >Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 10:15 AM
> >Subject: Fedora core 3 and oralux
> >
> >
> >> Hi all
> >> I am a new user.
> >> I am currently need some ergent help.
> >> I am required by my local university, or collage as you guys in us call
it
> >to use dos, linux and windows for a operating systems and programming
paper.
> >> I have been getting conflicting reports however on distrobutions.
> >> One person someware else told me fedora core3 with gnopernicus, yasr,
> >flite  and openoffice are good.
> >> At the same time I heard oralux is good.
> >> And debian is good.
> >> Obviously, I can't try all and I have a time constraoints before course
> >starts, etc.
> >> So whats best?
> >> Take in mind I only have a slow connection and so have employed others
to
> >do the linux cd downloads.
> >> Of those I have fedora core, and oralux.
> >> I have no time to get debian.
> >> I need to ask a few questions.
> >> 1.  What is a good boot manager.
> >> 2.  I know auralux does not right to ntfs but does fedora?
> >> Is there a way I could have linux loaded on the same system as windows
> >xp,?
> >> And if possible Instead of using a boot manager could I bee able to
start
> >linux from a program group in windows, that is have something that would
> >shutdown windows and start linux from windows.
> >> For software I have everything.
> >> IN this course I will also bee using dos.
> >> Is it therefore easier to  have a seperate machine for dos or is the
> >windows xp console suffishient, or is it better to have a dos emulator
from
> >within linux and therefore whats best?
> >> Now even if I choose fedora, and or auralux I will ergently need some
> >tutorials for both systems, installation guides,etc.
> >> Manuals for speech synths etc.
> >>
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