Just a quick note for you. A bare Windows 95 machine, with Office 97 but
without all the sounds, assistants, etc, can fit in a 200Meg drive with room
left over. I should know, I have a dodgy laptop with a 200 meg hard drive,
and they fit!! That leaves 400Meg for your documents. Win98 will add another
50Meg for the same config, 98SE will add another 100Meg. (Good old Microsoft
eh?!!)
If you do run out of space, you would do better having the documents on the
other machine, rather than having Office on the other machine.
----- Original Message -----
From: Aaron deRozario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 9:56 AM
Subject: [newbie] Wanted - networking tips (plan A)
> Greetings all
>
> Over the last couple of days I have been reading plenty of HOW-TO's, and a
> few mini-HOWTO's on networking with Linux. In fact I've encountered more
> weird acronyms and strange buxx words in the last 2 days than in the rest
of
> my life put together. However I am learning a bucketload and realising
that
> there is A LOT of good docs in the how-to's!
>
> Don't think is going to stop me from posting lots of trivial and basic
> questions though!
>
> At the moment I am considering logistical problems - hardware setups and
the
> like (messing up software is free - messing up hardware costs $$$).
>
> Here is one of the many plans I am considering (Plan A)
>
> I currently have a box with a 1gig hda with Windows and a 6.4gig hdb with
> Linux.
>
> I am thinking of ripping out the 1 gig drive and putting into a 486
> (actually an AMD-133 in a 486 board). I would like to split this drive
> giving about 600meg to Windows, and the rest to Linux. The 6.4 will stay
> with its current machine and become the server.
>
> In Linux mode I want to use this machine basically to learn about
Unix/Linux
> networking (NFS, telnet, remote X-terminals) etc.
> In Windows mode I want to learn about Samba, and use Windows when I have
to.
>
> I was thinking of connecting the two machines using 10Mbit cards and a hub
> (a third machine will be added later if these two work out okay).
>
> Here is the logistical concern I need answered. Both the gf and I do
> occasionally have to bring work home. Normally this is in the form of MS
> Word documents, sometimes 40 pages or more. Now I know there are MS Word
> filters on some Linux wordprocessors however when you are dealing with
very
> long documents, that include charts etc, small discrepencies when
> importing/exporting the file leads to some serious headaches. I will need
> to continue to have MS Office 97 (sorry). If I go ahead and do something
> that makes it impossible to run Office the gf WILL HAVE MY BOLLOCKS. She
> will live if it runs slowly - she will kill me if it doesn't run at all.
>
> Here is the question then (finally) 600meg is not going to hold Win95 plus
> Office. So I want to install Office onto a network drive on the Linux
> server. Will a 10Mbit network be quick enough for the Windows machine to
> run Office from the networked drive?
>
> Yes I know Office is slow anyway, even slower on a 486, but will a 10Mbit
> allow Office to actually work?
>
> Thanking you in advance
>
> Aaron
