Re: Getting info from Win '95 before removing it

1998-04-05 Thread Ian Lynagh
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 si

Re: Getting info from Win '95 before removing it

1998-04-03 Thread Marco Anglesio
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, T-SNAKE wrote: > > It sounds much too big. I would definitely NOT have swap space more > > than about twice my physical memory. > > Seriously? I've always been told to have around 3X when this little physical > ram is involved. I have 16MB ram, but my total swap is 48MB. >

Re: Getting info from Win '95 before removing it

1998-04-03 Thread T-SNAKE
> It sounds much too big. I would definitely NOT have swap space more > than about twice my physical memory. Seriously? I've always been told to have around 3X when this little physical ram is involved. I have 16MB ram, but my total swap is 48MB. What would be the reson for only 2X? Chris -- '\,

Re: Getting info from Win '95 before removing it

1998-04-03 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
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 tha

Getting info from Win '95 before removing it

1998-04-03 Thread Ian Lynagh
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)?). Before removing Win'95 is there anywhere I can get any information which may be useful to Linux? I have printed a ful