As other have already told you, the system is just fine for a starter Linux
system. I use a 150 meg Pentium (but with 96 megs and a 3 gig HD) day in,
day out. No problems with text consoles, X, ppp, Netscape ... the usual
bland assortment of everyday stuff.
Splitting the hard disk will be fine for the Linux side of things. (Though
my HD is bigger, my Linux installation only takes up about 300 megs.)
Remember to allow space for a swap partition, though. Whether Windows will
get by in less space ... well, you'd do better to ask that of a Windows
group, I suppose. (I do have a separate Win95 system, with Office 95, the MS
compiler set, and some statistical apps on it, plus a lot of local stuff -
it uses about 1.2 gigs of disk space.)
Whatever distribution you decide on, do install the current version -- for
RH, that's 5.2.
At 08:37 AM 2/16/99 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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 ?
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