Hi all
I've been toying with installing Linux (Red Hat 5.1) on my home PC for
a few months now, but have never plucked up enough courage to do so.
All the talk of partitioning etc (I run Win95 on a single partition
1.2Gb IDE HD) scares me, but I'm not averse to a bit of fiddling.
I've got a 133MHz Pentium (bog standard, 2 1/2 yr old) 32 Mb RAM and
HD as mentioned above. If I split the hard drive into two partitions
(one for DOS/Win and the other for Linux) would this give me enough
space/power to have a good old toy around before I decide to splash
out on a new HD purely for Linux ? If I *do* decide to go for a new
HD, how big should it be ? Is the PC as it stands good enough to run
Linux/X and actually be useable ?
Sorry for all the questions, but I'd like some sensible advice (all
the FAQs/HOWTOs I've read seem to have been written years ago when a
486 DX2 was top-notch stuff). Thanks in advance
David
