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I have a 10 GB hard drive with windows Me on it. I was planning to
partition the hard drive in half and install Fedora 8 on it. How much
space does the typical Fedora 8 installation require? Is 5GB enough?
Also, the computer only has 160 MB of RAM. Would it be a good idea to
add on the additional 96MB so it has 256MB of RAM? 256MB is the biggest
it can hold. I was also wondering about my modem. I use a U.S. Robotics
56K modem card for Windows. Is it possible to make it work under Fedora
or any other Linux distribution?

firefox

On 22 Jan, 20:46, firefox <j...@ver.net> wrote:
> I have a 10 GB hard drive with windows Me on it. I was planning to
> partition the hard drive in half and install Fedora 8 on it. How much
> space does the typical Fedora 8 installation require? Is 5GB enough?
> Also, the computer only has 160 MB of RAM. Would it be a good idea to
> add on the additional 96MB so it has 256MB of RAM? 256MB is the biggest
> it can hold. I was also wondering about my modem. I use a U.S. Robotics
> 56K modem card for Windows. Is it possible to make it work under Fedora
> or any other Linux distribution?
>
> firefox

I think, you'd better not to install fedora. because, a basic fedora
will need about 4G hard disk space, in addition, the memory is too
small. if you run a popular GUI, it will be very slow. If you have
interesting, you can try Debian or Ubuntu

fetag wrote:
> On 22 Jan, 20:46, firefox <j...@ver.net> wrote:
>
>> I have a 10 GB hard drive with windows Me on it. I was planning to
>> partition the hard drive in half and install Fedora 8 on it. How much
>> space does the typical Fedora 8 installation require? Is 5GB enough?
>> Also, the computer only has 160 MB of RAM. Would it be a good idea to
>> add on the additional 96MB so it has 256MB of RAM? 256MB is the biggest
>> it can hold. I was also wondering about my modem. I use a U.S. Robotics
>> 56K modem card for Windows. Is it possible to make it work under Fedora
>> or any other Linux distribution?
>>
>> firefox
>>
>
> I think, you'd better not to install fedora. because, a basic fedora
> will need about 4G hard disk space, in addition, the memory is too
> small. if you run a popular GUI, it will be very slow. If you have
> interesting, you can try Debian or Ubuntu
>
Thanks for the info fetag. I think I will get a bigger hard drive and
add on the maximum amount of memory. I will definitely look at Debian
and Ubuntu and see if I like them.

firefox

On 22 Jan, 16:22, firefox <j...@ver.net> wrote:
> fetag wrote:
> > On 22 Jan, 20:46, firefox <j...@ver.net> wrote:
>
> >> I have a 10 GB hard drive with windows Me on it. I was planning to
> >> partition the hard drive in half and install Fedora 8 on it. How much
> >> space does the typical Fedora 8 installation require? Is 5GB enough?
> >> Also, the computer only has 160 MB of RAM. Would it be a good idea to
> >> add on the additional 96MB so it has 256MB of RAM? 256MB is the biggest
> >> it can hold. I was also wondering about my modem. I use a U.S. Robotics
> >> 56K modem card for Windows. Is it possible to make it work under Fedora
> >> or any other Linux distribution?
>
> >> firefox
>
> > I think, you'd better not to install fedora. because, a basic fedora
> > will need about 4G hard disk space, in addition, the memory is too
> > small. if you run a popular GUI, it will be very slow. If you have
> > interesting, you can try Debian or Ubuntu
>
> Thanks for the info fetag. I think I will get a bigger hard drive and
> add on the maximum amount of memory. I will definitely look at Debian
> and Ubuntu and see if I like them.
>
> firefox- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -


Why notkeep the old Windows one around for dual-booting if you need
it?

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On 22 Jan, 16:22, firefox <j...@ver.net> wrote:
>
>> fetag wrote:
>>
>>> On 22 Jan, 20:46, firefox <j...@ver.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a 10 GB hard drive with windows Me on it. I was planning to
>>>> partition the hard drive in half and install Fedora 8 on it. How much
>>>> space does the typical Fedora 8 installation require? Is 5GB enough?
>>>> Also, the computer only has 160 MB of RAM. Would it be a good idea to
>>>> add on the additional 96MB so it has 256MB of RAM? 256MB is the biggest
>>>> it can hold. I was also wondering about my modem. I use a U.S. Robotics
>>>> 56K modem card for Windows. Is it possible to make it work under Fedora
>>>> or any other Linux distribution?
>>>>
>>>> firefox
>>>>
>>> I think, you'd better not to install fedora. because, a basic fedora
>>> will need about 4G hard disk space, in addition, the memory is too
>>> small. if you run a popular GUI, it will be very slow. If you have
>>> interesting, you can try Debian or Ubuntu
>>>
>> Thanks for the info fetag. I think I will get a bigger hard drive and
>> add on the maximum amount of memory. I will definitely look at Debian
>> and Ubuntu and see if I like them.
>>
>> firefox- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>>
>
>
> Why notkeep the old Windows one around for dual-booting if you need
> it?
>
That's what I was planning to do - partition the hard drive in half and
have windows on one half and Fedora, Ubuntu, or some other linux
distribution on the other half. Or I might get a second hard drive and
use that for linux and leave windows on the first. Both hard drives
would be on the same computer.

Hello mc!

23 Jan 08 22:50, mc wrote to All:

m> I was just wondering, how does linux respond to a windows machine that
m> has partition magic installed? Will it roll over and have an attack of
m> blue screen dementia? Does linux require files on the c drive like my
m> nt 4.0 op system? I'm trying to get a better understanding of
m> grub...does it create primary and logical drives? thanks mc

Partition magic and the windows C: drive does not matter. When installing
Linux on a box running Windows you:

During the Linux install process,

1. Adjust existing partition to a smaller size to reflect requirements for
Windows, ie current Windows used space plus any growth you might need.

2. Linux the rest less Ram size * 1.5 up to 3 GB (various people suggest less
but if you have a large HD does it matter) for the swap partition. [Note * =
times eg 3GB ram swap equals max of 4.5Gb] suggest format to ext3.

So the layout is :
partition 1: Windows resized if needed.
Partition 2: Swap space = RAM size time 1.5.
Partition 3: Linux root (/). The rest.

You can swap partitions 2 and 3 around if needed but this way swap is near the
front of the drive giving a faster access time (on average).

Hope the above helps,

Vince