Re: Getting info from Win '95 before removing it
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel Martin at cush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Ian Lynagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On the release of Hamm I will be taking Win'95 off my 486 and replacing it with Linux (BTW, does 40 meg swap partition sound about right for 8 megs of RAM (total HD size=340MB)?). It sounds much too big. I would definitely NOT have swap space more than about twice my physical memory. 16 megs it is then. Before removing Win'95 is there anywhere I can get any information which may be useful to Linux? I have printed a full report from device manager. You'll probably want to also get information specific to your isp - mainly, you'll want the IP addresses of the DNS servers (this will be under the properties of TCP/IP networking in the network control panel), and of course things like what number to dial. I have all this sort of stuff on other computers. What I was worried about was the lack of hardware manuals, but dad has found the monitor and video card manuals now so I think I probably have everything I need now :-) TTYL Ian -- Ian Lynagh - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.sn.no/~balchen/igloo/ If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Getting info from Win '95 before removing it
On the release of Hamm I will be taking Win'95 off my 486 and replacing it with Linux (BTW, does 40 meg swap partition sound about right for 8 megs of RAM (total HD size=340MB)?). Before removing Win'95 is there anywhere I can get any information which may be useful to Linux? I have printed a full report from device manager. Thanks in advance Ian -- Ian Lynagh - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.sn.no/~balchen/igloo/ Not one shred of evidence exists in favour of the idea that life is serious. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting info from Win '95 before removing it
Ian Lynagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On the release of Hamm I will be taking Win'95 off my 486 and replacing it with Linux (BTW, does 40 meg swap partition sound about right for 8 megs of RAM (total HD size=340MB)?). It sounds much too big. I would definitely NOT have swap space more than about twice my physical memory. Before removing Win'95 is there anywhere I can get any information which may be useful to Linux? I have printed a full report from device manager. You'll probably want to also get information specific to your isp - mainly, you'll want the IP addresses of the DNS servers (this will be under the properties of TCP/IP networking in the network control panel), and of course things like what number to dial. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting info from Win '95 before removing it
It sounds much too big. I would definitely NOT have swap space more than about twice my physical memory. Seriously? I've always been told to have around 3X when this little physical ram is involved. I have 16MB ram, but my total swap is 48MB. What would be the reson for only 2X? Chris -- '\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\ Live on Real Audio Thursday nights 8-11 EST http://www.uvm.edu/~wruv T-SNAKE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ UIN:1868354 A DJ on a mission CROSSFADE RECORDS http://www.crossfade.com/ Drug free techno ,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/'\,/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting info from Win '95 before removing it
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, T-SNAKE wrote: It sounds much too big. I would definitely NOT have swap space more than about twice my physical memory. Seriously? I've always been told to have around 3X when this little physical ram is involved. I have 16MB ram, but my total swap is 48MB. What would be the reson for only 2X? I was told two-and-a-half. However, swap's mainly good for holding cached pages and the like on a desktop machine. For a file, news, or print server, a larger swap space (depending on load, of course) might be very good because you probably won't mind a little thrashing here or there. On the other hand, for a machine with which you're going to be doing interactive sessions (X, shell sessions, and the like), your machine is going to be unusably slow by the time you start using swap significantly. Those are the breaks. I have 1-1/2xRAM (1.5x32=48M) swap on my own machine (which is up and net connected 24/7), which is short of the guideline of 2-1/2. Still, I'm happy with performance so far (of the box, at least. the net connection needs some work). m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life is like a bad margarita with good tequila, http://squawk.klue.on.ca I thought, as I poured whiskey onto my granola Running Debian Linux 2.0 and faced a new day. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
