🚀 go-pugleaf

Darren James Reed (s913631@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU) wrote:
: s931537@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (BIGGLES _pilot_) writes:

: >I'm planning to buy a Pentinum System with 16M ram, 540 plus HD, Tseng
: >lab W32P 2M PCI video board, 15' XGA monitor, CD-ROM drive ... 
nice...
: >I was once told that I should partition my hard drive to have Linux &
: >Dos/Windowz existed concurrently. If I'm gonna buy a plug & play Linux
: >on cdrom, what's the size of partition ?
depends on whether you can live with linking most things to the CD, in which
case, a Yggdrasil installation (or similar) would succeed with only 5Mb, of
course it depends if you want data space ;)
: >What if I wanna install the whole Linux onto HD, what's the size of
: >partition then ?
680Mb for Yggdrasil _complete_
: >Any suggestion on which Linux I should buy ? I'd prefer those with good
: >documentation & lots of Xwindows programs.
i prefer slackware, this can be got from Trans-Ameritech, Infomagic etc.
: The quick answer: 0MB for Linux and use the entire HD for NetBSD.
GOOD GRIEF. The usual rule applies, you get one in every crowd.
If you have a Net/Free/386BSD guru on tap, this may be a good idea, ergo
for Linux. Use what your friends have, unless you like being a loner.
: You can use X11R6 with NetBSD, and now that NetBSD is using shared libs,
: you can fit it in around 200MB with room to move (NetBSD is a much more
: complete distribution than Linux and actually works, besides being far
: superior in many aspects).
Complete in what respect? If you come from a BSDism background it's more
comfortable granted, but otherwise...
Linux has an msdos emulator, Windows emulation imminent (Real Soon Now :))

In short I use Dos/Windows and Linux including X on a 170Mb drive, split
100 / 62Mb in Linux favour, without space problems.
cheers
bryan