Re: System Requirements?

From: baskitcaise (baskitcaise_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:27:51 +0000

DiddyS adjusted his/her tin foil beanie and asbestos underwear to write:

> Hi,
>
> I'm about to take the plunge and try Linux for the first time (9.1
> Personal from Computer Buyer's cover disk).
>
> Initially I plan on installing it on one of my older computers to see
> how it goes as I don't want to risk messing up my main machine, but
> I'm wondering if they are up to it.
>
> Would a Pentium 166MMX with 64MB of RAM cope? If not would a Pentium
> 200 with 192MB of RAM do any better?
>

You might jut get away with the Pentium but the performance would be
dire if you tried KDE or any of the heavyweight desktops, which might
put you off :)

> If neither of these is up to it, I'll have to bite the bullet and set
> up a dual boot system on No.1 machine (Athlon 3200+ with 1GB of RAM)
> and hope I don't *** it up.
>

That would be ideal and will run very well ( That is what this box is at
the moment :)

Have you got a spare drive of about 10gig? if so then slam that in the
Athlon and install Suse on that to keep it away from Winders, not that
anything will go wrong but it will stop Suse getting lost if you have
to install winders again :)

It is possible to configure the bootloader of Suse to be placed on a
floppy ( this is done while configuring the install in the "bootloader
section" ) so that nothing MS side is touched and when you want Suse
just re-boot with the floppy in.

There is just one big gothca in 9.1, make sure your hard-drives are set
to "LBA" in the bios and not "Auto" otherwise you might not be able to
boot Windows under certain circumstances, the fix is trivial though so
don`t panic if this happens, see here for more info:-

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/fhassel_windows_not_booting91.html

HTH 

-- 
Mark
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