On This Day, In The Year Of Our Lord 19 Aug 97 at 22:15. "Re: HELP: formatting the hard drive" by Syrus Nemat-Nasser:
> I can confirm that it is enough, but that depends on what you want to > run on the machine. I suggest that you start with the default packages > minus everything related to news such as inews and inn. You probably > can install X, but I would keep it light--only one Xserver, and only the > minimum in fonts and documentation. Do not install any dev packages > unless and until you know you need them. It's going to be a single user machine so I guess I'll install the minimal. I like X-Windows but I am afraid it would be impossible with only 8 MB of ram, so I'll stick with the multiple logins =) > If you can get your hands on some DOS system floppies, you can do the > following: boot into DOS, run FDISK.EXE and delete all the partitions on > the HD. Rewrite the partition table with one DOS FAT partition. Reboot > again so the partition table will be read, and then use the command > "FORMAT C:". You will need to have a DOS floppy with FDISK and FORMAT. > At this point, or even after you simply use FDISK, you should be able to > use a Win '95 install floppy for the OEM version or whatever setup disk > you might have (DOS, Win 3.1, etc.). I was able to format the HD but I am still having trouble with Linux text appearing on the screen. Leandro+ ___ Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro (LA672) Capital of Nasty Electronic Magazine - ISSN 1482-0471 Editor in Chief - http://www.capnasty.org Have you noticed how much they look like orchids? Lovely! -- Notebooks of Lazarus Long (by Robert A. Heinlein) Send an empty e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to subscribe ZimID 46B98555 1993/12/15 0D 6E 96 68 D6 B3 9A 96 20 ED 1F AF 11 46 13 79 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
