600 MB is plenty of room for Win 95 and Office 97 full install. It takes
about 200-300 MB, but it will fit. If you don't need Access or Pwrpoint,
don't install them and save space. You probably won't have room for IE 5
either. Use an older version of any browser. Either work on docs from
disk or don't save tons of docs on the PC to conserve room. Yes, it will
be slower to boot and start programs on a 486, but it will work. After
you do your install you might want to do a defrag to clean things up a bit.
I would not want to work every day on a 486, but they are still useful.
Make sure you have plenty of RAM. 16 MB or more at least.
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron deRozario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Greetings all
>
><snip>
>Here is the logistical concern I need answered. Both the gf and I do
>occasionally have to bring work home. Normally this is in the form of MS
>Word documents, sometimes 40 pages or more. Now I know there are MS Word
>filters on some Linux wordprocessors however when you are dealing with
very
>long documents, that include charts etc, small discrepencies when
>importing/exporting the file leads to some serious headaches. I will need
>to continue to have MS Office 97 (sorry). If I go ahead and do something
>that makes it impossible to run Office the gf WILL HAVE MY BOLLOCKS. She
>will live if it runs slowly - she will kill me if it doesn't run at all.
>
>Here is the question then (finally) 600meg is not going to hold Win95 plus
>Office. So I want to install Office onto a network drive on the Linux
>server. Will a 10Mbit network be quick enough for the Windows machine to
>run Office from the networked drive?
>
>Yes I know Office is slow anyway, even slower on a 486, but will a 10Mbit
>allow Office to actually work?
>
>Thanking you in advance
>
>Aaron
