One quick caveat for disk-swapping. Watch your BIOS settings for the drive. Different BIOS' detect any drive distinctly, and having one BIOS use w sectors and x heads may give the same MB as y sectors and z heads ... but the drive will not always read correctly with an alternate setup.
On Sunday 15 June 2003 07:30, vh wrote: > Hello List. > I want to run Linux on rather old PC. > The PC is Pentium MMX 166 with 24M RAM, S3 Trio Video and 2,5Gb WD Hard > Disk, motherboard is Intel 430 VX. I tried set up ASP Linux, but it > hangs up during installation of packages (on ASP forum I was told that this > distributive should work on my computer). Also I tried to set up > Mandrake, but of cause it's failed die to low amount of RAM. Do I > need older releases? But which ones should I try to use? > Yes, I was reading a lot of FAQs and HOW-TOs, but I can't install > anything at all. And I belive the problem is only in installation. > Do I think right? What should I do? What distribution should I use? > Can I setup Linux to my HDD on another PC so as it will be working > lately when I plug it into my one? Any configuration hacks is not so > terrible for me. I'm thinking now to run FBSD, but Linux certainly > will be preferable. Can no more work with windows... Any experience?
If you do decide to go the disk-swapping route, then I'd say it's certainly possible to set up Linux on a hard drive on another PC, then swap the drive over, so long as the hardware in yours is fairly compatible with the other one. You may need to 'hack' some of the config files, in particular /etc/XF86Config (or XF86Config-4) that drives the 'X' (GUI) windowing system, before X will work.
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