A couple of questions.

[Ed Barnes]

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
> 
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