It should be able to do it. I could do it on my old p133. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cris Ali" <filastin48@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 12:38 AM Subject: Re: Thanks for ED and Janina > 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 at enigma2.cjb.net> > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
