On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 04:49:11PM +0530, newlxuser wrote:
>
> Sorry for my poor english, I may have not understood the point
> correctly. But Sir, I think your above 2 points are self-con-
> tradicting ! You are suggesting to use UMSDOS/ loadlin based
> Pygmy Linux ...
None of the current distros can be installed from floppies to
ext2. The best strategy would be to use M$ partition itself and
carry larger stuff in floppy chunks (asplit/ ajoin) and reassem-
ble on the M$ parition.
>
> (**.. he would still have to install M$ first though. Why take
> the trouble ?** )
>
> How come ?
>
What I wanted to say was, since M$ would have to be installed
first, it can handle its own partitioning. Once Pygmy is inst-
alled change things (if necessary through Linux). There is no
pre-partitioning necessary for M$.
> Well... Are you sure ? We *CAN* "do stuffs like repartition-
> ing, creating seperate swap etc," thru 'part'. I have used
> it extensively ! :-)
>
Yes, you can, but there is no necessity for pre-partitioning.
>
> I think, 100 MBs are enough to hold postgres/mysql database
> for a 24-bed hospital for around a couple of years.Any-how,
> only rare cases are found in a hospital who are staying for
> more than 6-months.
>
Agreed here too. He may put other stuff in /home as well.And
6 months in an ICU will normally see a patient climb the
stairway to Heaven six times !
>
> I have already developed & implemented a Heart Specialist
> database software some 18 months back ! It is smoothly
> running on a 486DX-4 machine with 1.2 GB HDD. The Doc was
> using the PC for a couple of years before that, for mana-
> ging his data thru M$-Excell.
>
That's great stuff ... ever consider changing your pseudo-
nym ? newlxuser seems well out of place.
Bish
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