Bob:
> The local elementary school was given a dozen 486 PCs with 121 Meg hard
> drives without any operating systems installed (cleaned off before donated
> ). I am looking into installing Linux, X and dosemu to give them a Y2K
> compliant computer that will run their old DOS primary school software and
> give them a GUI interface (These are only elementary school kids). Can
> anyone give me some guidance on the partitioning of a 121 Meg drive to put
> only the stuff I need.
I would suggest:
- use muLinux (fd based distro, can be installed on hard drive)
- two partitions: 1 swap, 1 data
- size of swap according to RAM, RAM+swap should be around 32 MB
if you really intend to run X, if not, 24 MB should suffice
OR
- consider installing freedos or RxDos with a GUI
(www.freedos.org)
I got it running (not that I use it though) on a 386 DX 40, 4 MB
RAM, 10 MB swap, 120 MB hda - without X, that is.
Karsten
