Hi Again Josh

grml 1.1 was the release candidate for grml-2008.11 so I don't understand why that did not work first time. Did you do anything different to cure your boot problem?

Learning a new operating system both fun and frustrating - and a lot of work. grml seems to be a popular choice for the blind. It has loads of documentation and tools for sysadmins. Take your time and read a lot in /usr/share/doc. Please ask if you get stuck.

As to the file you wish to delete are you sure it is the virus file? I've no idea one way or the other but the name suggests "digital rights management" - which from a libertarian point of view I oppose - but it just might be necessary to run some proprietary software on windows. Anyhow, to get rid of it boot the grml 1.1 Now if your wife has a single partition on a single hard drive its name in grml will be /dev/sda1.

You should already be in a root braille terminal with the command prompt like this

root@grml#

or something like it. Root is the administrator and you need to be root. Next you need to mount sda1 read-write. The recommended method is

root@grml# ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

If it refuses to mount try

# ntfs-3g --help

for the force option or else read the documentation folder or else try

# man ntfs-3g

The grml system has already created the directory /mnt/sda1 for you during the boot sequence. Now the secure removal program can be used to completely obliterate the file

root@grml# srm -su /mnt/sda1/windows/system32/drmclienp.dll

The -su means simple delete and remove the name of the file from the directory. - - - -

Don't know about voxin sorry.

I'll try to compose something for both yourself and janusz about installing.

Must return to work now Happy New Year Moss

Hi,

I found a linux distribution that works! it's an older one with software speech. it's grml 1.1. and it works good. So, vibuntu may not work on this machine, but oralux and grml 1.1 work fine. ok, so now I have a question. can someone tell me, keeping in mind that I have never used linux before in my whole entire life, I am a complete newby to grml and commandline linux. But if I am going to be a network administrator I will need to learn some kind of Linux distribution, what matters is that it has a Linux kernel which of course, grml has it because it's Linux... so, can someone give me an introduction to it? my wife's machine has a virus in it called c:\windows\system32\drmclienp.dll . pay attention to spelling. so I want to delete this file and therefore get rid of the virus. but windows will not let me access the file. so how do I do this using grml linux 1.1? Also, will voxin work with grml linux? And also, can someone tell me how to partition my hard drive and install grml Linux1.1 alongside Windows xp? grml1.1 uses ESpeak for speech.

Josh