Thanks for ED and Janina

[Alex Snow]

It should be able to do it.  I could do it on my old p133.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cris Ali" <filastin48 at hotmail.com>
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
> > >
> > >
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