A couple of questions.

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Hi, Cris:

The answer to all of your questions is "yes."

Well, a slightly more thorough answer might be that 166Mhz may
not be enough horsepower to manage sound streams and the conming
GUI accessibility. But, I'd certainly install them and find out.

Welcome to Linux.


On Sun, 9 Jun 2002,
Cris Ali wrote:

> Hello Folks,
> I just bought a pentium 166 old refurbished computer with 64 megs of ram,
> 2.5 gigs hard disk, and the rest.  I have two questions.
> First would this machine be good enough to dedicate for linux?  Is it fast
> enough, and would 64 megs of ram be enough?
> Second, I am planning to take a 1.6 gig hard disk from my old computer and
> put it in this machine as a second/slave hard drive.  Does Linux recognize a
> two physically seprate hard disks?  I am thinking of adding the second hard
> disk so that I would have enough space to play around with linux, and still
> have enough space for a full installation.
> I will appreciate your input.
> Cheers,
> Cris
> 
> 
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