Killing the attempt to get the Pentium 120 to do anything. I am salvaging what I can and moving them to the New Plan.
I just got an old Dell Optiplex GX1 with a 450Mhz PII. I can probably get 512 MB of RAM in it. I have (2) IDE 4.1 GB HDs, (1) IDE 1.2 GB HD, (1) IDE CD ROM, and (2) 9.0 GB SCSI Drives with a controller card. Here is what I have in my head. Please tell me I am not crazy. (or tell me how crazy I am.) 1. I would like to install Both Debian and Mandrake 9.1 on it. M9.1 would be my main installation, but I would like to have Debian on it to see what it is like and how it runs. a. Question: Can I create one swap partition and use it for both installations? b. Question: What is the advantage of 9.1 over 9.0? When 9.2 comes out can I just upgrade? c. Question: If I can put both (maybe 3 - SuSE 8.2?) distributions on this machine, and later I decide that I really like one more than the other, can I reclaim the space in the working OS? 2. I would like to run two monitors on this machine. It has a 4MB video card built in, but I have an 8MB PCI video card that I can slap in it. I would like to run two screens for web development programs and such. (code on one, view on the other). Is this possible? -=Thinker
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