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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 11 December 2002 11:09 pm, Mike Chidley wrote:
I am giving my old computer to my mum..she is giving me a "contribution" to my new computer :-) If I do take the 20 gig HD out it`ll still leave an 8 gig one which should be plently for Windows 98 and the modest requirements.
No reason not to bung in a network card now though - it would save a lot of hassle later when you want to sort out problems with the machine.
If I was to repartition the 40 gig drive how much would XP require, should I go for 30/10 , 20/20 or 10/30?
0? How long's a piece of string, after all, it was BG who said 250Mb out to be enough for anyone. What are you going to stick on the XP partition? Office? Visual C++/Basic etc? two hundred flight sims? XP itself can squeeze into 2-3Gb. (Mind you, this is only judging from a quick snoop around PCWorld, I refuse to own XP.)
I seem to have 16gig of linux stuff at the moment...
?? How much? I've got Mandrake, Debian, SuSE, Lycoris, Slackware AND Windows installed on a total of 14Gb! (used space, it's actually a 60Gb so there's room for another Mandrake, RedHat and maybe Sorcerer or LinuxFromScratch too.) Sounds like you're copying BG's blubberware habits! I'd go 10 XP / 30 Linux. - -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx neil@xxxxxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE998dsiAEJSii8s+MRAuToAKDfD1fSJRCm//8J91vbKBrsfJ76MwCfb3ps opA++KT+iTbCU1JAjNq8Cw8= =Gvq2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.