On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 Ruleng@aol.com wrote:
hdd0: 210 Mb. with MSDOS 6.2 ( 4DOS addon) and Windows for Workgroups hdd1: 450 Mb. partitioned 240 Mb. for DOS and Windows, 210 Mb. for a
Can you afford some more hard-disk space for linux? It would really make a big difference!
40X CDROM drive.
Is this an IDE drive or does it use some kind of different hardware interface?
If there is not enough disk space for a recommended distribution, wouldit be possible for me to use only part of it at first, and which parts should a novice select? I would appreciate any advice that you could give me.
I just had a look at some of my old distributions, you could probably install an old (5.1) version of Redhat or maybe the slink release of Debian. With the hardware you have there are going to be some quite heavy limitations on what you can and can't do. The current release of Debian says you need 12Mb RAM and 64Mb harddisk but around 300Mb Harddisk for X-windows etc.
What do you want to do in Linux is probably the best question I can ask now, you are going to be limited by hardware but depending on what you want to do there may be ways around it.
Adam