Re: newbie

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Installing Emacs is probably just a command away, depending on the 
distribution you're going with. If you're using a Ubuntu based 
distribution for example, you can just run one command on the command 
line to install Emacs. I'd suspect most popular distributions have a 
pretty accessible Emacs package available to you.

On 09/26/2014 05:02 PM, Alex Midence wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Briefly, no, emacspeak won't install the operating system for you.  It won't even install Emacs for you.  You need to have a Linux distro installed first.  How you partition your hard drive is not a factor insofar as Emacspeak is concerned.  Once you install your OS, you can either use the distro's package for Emacs and emacspeak or you can get the source code for Emacspeak and install it from there.  You will need to have Emacs installed first.  How to do that is a whole separate subject though.
>
> Alex
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lorie McCloud [mailto:lorice804@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 3:40 PM
> To: emacspeak@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: newbie
>
> Greetings:
> I just joined this list. I've been interested in Linux or unix for awhile now. I'm running windows xp. and don't want to go any farther down the windows road. I'm totally blind, have never seen a screen in my life so what I read about emacspeak really intrigues me. I have some basic questions that you guys may have answered a bunch of times already so if you want to tell me where to search for the answers, I'm good with that.
>
> when you install emacspeak, are you installing the whole operating system or do you have to do that first? can I partition my hard drive and install it alongside xp or do I need to take everything out? are there tutorials available for getting oriented to the desktop?
>
> thanks.
> Lorie
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