Re: Help: About my PC
- From: Matt Giwer <jull43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:49:24 -0400
Amy Lee wrote:
Hello,
I have an old computer, and I've upgraded it for many times. Hardware List:
Cpu: Celerom 733 MHz up to 1100 MHz
Motherboard: GA-6VXE+
Ram: 320 MB
HD: 10 GB + 60 GB
Sound Card: CS4281
Video Card: Geforce 2 MX 400 with 64 MB
NIC: Realtek 8139
I use Redhat 9 now. I'd like to know which Redhat Dist. fits in my PC.
It is hard to imagine any current linux distro would not install on the 10G drive leaving about half of it and all of the 60 free. I assume that if the motherboard can live with the sound and video cards they are old enough that any linux can deal with them. You could use more RAM but that is doable if you can live with not having too many graphics apps open at once or not bothered by speed decreases. You will see what I mean when you open too many. Everybody loves Realtek.
I lived with RH8 on a 333 machine for a couple years but mostly as a smart terminal for other machines on a local network. (Bragging rights were NOT worth the hassle and the making them a cluster was OBE.)
If you do put it on the 10G the only thing to suggest, and it has been contested here, is to move home to the 60G drive. That would be a mv command and then a sym link from /home you create after the mv on the 10 to the home on the 60. That should make it completely transparent and give you as the user the entire 60 to file without having to make a flakey symlink to the other drive in your home directory. I did that once. Don't. Use the free space on the 10 as backup.
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