Memory Considerations

[Jared]

I wish to partition my hard drive the c drive in to a 13 gig chunk for
windows running fat32 and a six gig chunk running x2. I wish to do this with
partition magic. I'm running a selleron 501 megeherts processor and have 256
megs of sd ram.

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Georgina Joyce
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 6:46 AM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: RE: Memory Considerations


Hi

I'm a little confused what the questions are on this thread.  You can run X
Windows on a 486 with 8Mb ram.  If you have a machine with a 4Gb hard drive
I'm guessing that you have more RAM thanthat.  It appears that you have
Windows on a 4Gb hard drive.  Well, how much has it used.  What is important
is how much free disk space do you have and the memory, I guess, if you have
less than 16Mb, which I suspect is not the case.

If you're going to go ahead with a Linux installation you need to run defrag
then resize your Windows partition smaller to create free space but back up
I said, BACK UP all your critical
data.

Please state clearly what you currently wish to do with what resources.

Gena
-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Jared
Sent: 31 March 2002 11:10
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: RE: Memory Considerations


Ok I accually am going to put x-windows on my machine for some of my sighted
friends to be able to use. How will this effect the memory needed? I will
probibly be putting it on a seporate partition on meyc drive then for more
room.

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Geoff Shang
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 11:09 PM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Memory Considerations


On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Jared wrote:

> All I have is a 4 gig drive that was what came with this. Could I install
> redhat on this drive and have enough room to spair.

I'm running Debian on a 2 gig drive.  I'm running out of space now, but
that's with 3 years worth clutter on there as well (and this system
supports 2 uers as well).  So I'd definitely say yes, especially if you
don't want Xwindows (which you probably don't).

> Cood I then read off my
> fat32 for stuff like music on the windows drive?

Yep.

> If I use x2 for a file
> system on my c drive will it be possible to dule boot?

Urrrr. I don't understand the question.  Filesystems are on partitions, not
drives.  So you could have an ext2 filesystem and a fat32 filesystem on
seperate partitions on the same drive.

Geoff.




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