Partitioning your 1.2 gig hd wouldn't be a good idea as that would
leave very little room for all the drive hungry windows stuff and
these days the price of a new hd is fairly low. A new hd just for
linux would also make the installation an easy proposition.
Your system would run linux with ease though..I have it installed on
an "old 486" and it perks along just fine. I do believe that RH 5.1
has been superceded by 5.2 though and I would advise moving to
the newer release although 5.1 is certainly useable.
> 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
>
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