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> 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.
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> 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 ?
Altho' splitting your H/D would give you "just about enough room", i would
not advise it, altho' the choise is your's.
At todays prices a new (E)IDE disk costs around next to nothing, so buying
a new H/D is possably a beter idea for several reasons.
1) you wont touch your old faithful widows,
2) no playing around with the old drive,
3) a much simpler install.
I would suggest however installing Redhat 5.2 as 5.1 is now already out of
date.
As for the bog standard stuff no problem there.
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> 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
Yes they are out of date, BUT do give accurate instructions "most" of the
time.
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> David
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Regards Richard.
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