Thanks a lot for your helpful comments. I count on Janina to come and help me with the installation once I get the other hard drive put in this new box. For now, this machine does not even have an operation system installed. I suppose that I do not even need to install any operation system if I am going to install Linux, isn't that right? As to the 166 MHz speed not up to the power of handling sound streaming, this is new information to me. I seem to have always mistakenly believed that the quality of sound stream depended on the speed of the connection to the internet. In any case, I could not resist the urge to buy this machine. I thought a machine with the same features would certainly be more than the $29 I paid. It is a refurbished IBM 166 MHz, 64 megs of ram, 2.5 gig hd, a cd rom, network card, a video card, two USB ports, two serial ports, and a parallel port. Thanks again for your comments. Regards, Cris ----- Original Message ---- From: "Ed Barnes" <ebarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 10:41 PM Subject: Re: A couple of questions. > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
