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Article #19Re: [Qn] System Setup, & What Linux ??
From: Darren James Reed
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 05:29
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 05:29
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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 ... >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 ? >What if I wanna install the whole Linux onto HD, what's the size of >partition then ? >Any suggestion on which Linux I should buy ? I'd prefer those with good >documentation & lots of Xwindows programs. The quick answer: 0MB for Linux and use the entire HD for NetBSD. 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). NOTE: If you chose to use double-space for DOS (to compress your HD and save space) then you will more than likely be unable to access your DOS partitions from Unix, whereas you otherwise might.
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