Re: [Qn] System Setup, & What Linux ??

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From: Adam Frey
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 1994 07:22

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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 ... 

You just posted so you could say that. Didn't you? Hmmmm?!

>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 ?

Replace Dos/Windowz with OS/2 and you are laughing. Not particularly
original tho'...

>What if I wanna install the whole Linux onto HD, what's the size of
>partition then ?

Depends how big you partitioned it to be. ;) Seriously, the goobers that be
recommend anywhere from 100 meg to 400 meg depending on how much of the
distribution you want and whether you plan to have things like newsspools
taking up space.

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From: s932562@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Adam Frey)
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Subject: Re: [Qn] System Setup, & What Linux ??
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