Thanks for ED and Janina

[Cris Ali]

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
> >
> >
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