On 20 Sep 2000, at 8:18, Anthony J. Albert wrote:
> On 19 Sep 2000, at 19:20, Tom L. McCoy wrote:
>
> > I currently run a SurvPC as my main machine, it's a P150 with 1.5
> > gig hd and 16 megs memory. It works well and is loaded with soft-
> > ware using Win95 as the platform. I have another 1.5 gig hd on the
> > way. My questions are -
IMHO it would be best to split your C drive into smaller chunks, so
that the cluster size isn't so bad. (But, hey, I have 5GB and 10GB
FAT32 partitions on this 20GB drive; most of the remaining 5GB for
linux) But my particular machine isn't a SurvPC, the 286,386,486
are. :-)
> 6. Restart, and then Win95 should start. Assuming all is well, then
> you should see the new drive as D:, and your CD-ROM as E: This
> will probably mess up some settings in CD-ROM based software,
> so you may need to reinstall some things that run from CD-ROM.
It might be an idea to change the cdrom to some other letter, I use
M drive for zip and I drive for Zip. There are command line switches
for DOS, and in W9x its in the system properties.
One thing, make sure you have room in your case. ;-) Looking at
my case, to add another harddrive, I'll have to get the mechano out
and construct it just under my current drive.
I was going to suggest if you did have partitions on your primary
drive, do not specify any primary partition on you secondary drive,
that way C,D,E might be on drive 1 while F,G,H on drive 2.
(Otherwise it'd be C,E,F on 1 and D,G,H on 2)
PS The reason I have been quiet recently is we were having a LAN
party that went for two weeks. :-) We got 4 weeks holiday from uni
because of the Olympics. I bought a new motherboard and CPU at
the start, and now have the fastest MHz computer of the Clan.
(Duron 650) Oh well. I also have the slowest computers in the Clan -
the 486SX33 as linux int[er|ra]net server and below...
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Ben Hood
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