Memory Considerations

[Gregory Nowak]

How do you propose getting 13+6 gb out of a 4 gb drive?
Greg


On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 11:08:59AM -0800, Jared wrote:
> 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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