[plug] Newby with SUSE 6.2 on a P100/16Meg

[James Tan]

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Holland <myk at golden.wattle.id.au>
To: PLUG <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] Newby with SUSE 6.2 on a P100/16Meg


> James,
> as Beau said, 16MB isnt really enough for X. Not for a beginner
> experimenting anyway.
>    Why don't you put the HDD into your main win98 or win2k machine, and
> disconnect the existing HDD? Just tell the bios to auto-detect the new HDD
> settings, and you're away, without risk to your windoze HDD.

Thanks Mike. Seems like that would be a better choice.  I'd still fiddle
around on the P100 still just to see how it runs, off course with an
alternative windows manager other than X.

>    Later, when feeling more safe, you might even connect both hard drives,
> and dual-boot.

Definitely.

Thanks.
James


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