1/ A pentium 2 333 (socket 8 upgrade in a pentium pro m/board) - with 96mb ram and a 10gb ide drive (and 9gb scsi secondary drive but don't worry about that). I run the translation software on this drive as the bios only sees 8.x gb otherwise.
The 10gig drive is partioned as
3.2gb c:/ (winME) 3.2gb / (knoppix/debian) 256kb swap 3.6gb /home
This machine runs both OS's quite well - I am quite satisfied with the performance - just wondered whether I could dispense with the translation software.
2/. Is a pentium 166mmx - 64mb ram - 20gb ide hdd.
Partions
2.4gb C:/ (win98se)
3.2gb / (knoppix/debian)
2.3gb / (caldera openlinux (temporarily as a trial - will be home eventually))
256kb swap
11.x gb vfat (shared data)
This machine goes very well with 98 - bit sluggish with debian and KDE3.0, but acceptable - very well with openlinux - at least as good as 98 - but apps are older than the knoppix debian.
The translation software is OK - just means that I can't boot straight from the CD - have to use a floppy (or in openlinux you can boot the cd from win98 which is cool).
Lance
From: C Falconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: making use of old equipment Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:33:46 +1200
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 11:44, Lance BLACKLER wrote: > A question re this post - > > Does this work for dual boot with winders - or do you need to use the > translation software such as Seagates Disk Management?
Windows would work exactly the same IF you could install all of the system in the bottom 500 Mb. Windows 95 and later access the drive directly, generally by-passing the BIOS.
However unix kernels that I've seen are all under 10 Mb - but any windows install in 500 Mb is going to be tight.
<OT subject="windows" level="helpful" sarcasm="0"> You could move the swap file to another partition, and install all applications on that second partition, but windows kinda wants to install all sorts of shit to c:\windows\system and so on. The windows dir on my vmware machine is just about a Gb. </OT>
And what kinda performance would you get out of a windows machine with such drive limitations - it'd have to be a 486 or a very early pentium.
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