Hi Chris, you should be ok w the P 166 w 64 mb of ram and the two hard disks, this is jmo, however; given what you've outlined I'd probably partition the system such that all the operating system partitions were on the larger of the two drives and have a very tiny /home partition, I'd place the /home1 partition or a partition called /home1 on hdb which is what Linux will call the second drive in the box, then create any user accounts in /home1 on hdb such that as your new to Linux if you ever want to flatten your system and do a re-install as I've done like 4 times since I started fooling around about four months ago you will have all important data on the second, smaller drive and you won't have to engage in a backup strategy. Hope this is helpful and best of luck with Linux. Ed Barnes 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
