On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Rick Orr wrote: > Umm coffee ... I cut down from a million cups a day to 2-3.
I used to drink 5 pots a day. Then I cut down to 2 cups, but as a coffee roaster, it's practically part of the job, so I'm up to just "drink it all day" however much that is. > Linux distro: I will go with 6.2 orso, should I download distro to HDD I > will be using or to this 40gig & burn a CD? Burn to CD will probably be easiest. If you can boot that machine from CD, it'll be really easy, otherwise, you'll need to create a bootdisk. Look around in the CD under something like dosutils and the directions will be there. > Since this will be pure Linux how should I format [reformat] this HDD? You might like to have a small 5 MB or so DOS partition. Other than that, a swap partition of 128MB or so, and the rest you can leave as one huge ext2 partition. If you chop it up too much, it'll be difficult later on to use it to its fullest. > I could dual-boot this machine [700AMD/256] but I would be more > comfortable learning about Linux on a separate puter for now. > [gots lots of work with Pagemaker to do] ... > > I could use a 166 Pentium instead of 90 ... would this make a noticable > difference with the same RAM? [64] I didn't notice a LOT of difference going from AMD K-75 to P-166, but AMD works better than Pentium anyway, so it's probably not fair to compare. > I have to drive 5 miles to town ... darn. Being close to the coast this > means sun here/fog in town [summer] ... my tomatoes actually grow! I roast(ed) in Portsmouth, NH... right on the coast. (I put it that way because I have one more day at work.) The packers come tomorrow and the movers on Tuesday. I'll be offline for... who knows how long after that. We have an offer on our house, and a house in MN in mind, but nothing in writing on either end. Could be a few weeks, or many. I'm hoping for a miracle; to be all moved into the new place in less than a month. -- Steve Ackman http://twoloonscoffee.com (Need green beans?) http://twovoyagers.com (glass, linux & other stuff)
