In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Ian Lynagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On the release of Hamm I will be taking Win'95 off my 486 and replacing >> it with Linux (BTW, does 40 meg swap partition sound about right for >> 8 megs of RAM (total HD size=340MB)?). > >It sounds much too big. I would definitely NOT have swap space more >than about twice my physical memory.
16 megs it is then. >> Before removing Win'95 is there anywhere I can get any information >> which may be useful to Linux? I have printed a full report from device >> manager. > >You'll probably want to also get information specific to your isp - >mainly, you'll want the IP addresses of the DNS servers (this will be >under the "properties" of TCP/IP networking in the network control >panel), and of course things like what number to dial. I have all this sort of stuff on other computers. What I was worried about was the lack of hardware manuals, but dad has found the monitor and video card manuals now so I think I probably have everything I need now :-) TTYL Ian -- Ian Lynagh - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.sn.no/~balchen/igloo/ If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
