[ltp] SIMPLE QUESTIONS

[Charles E Taylor IV]

On 15 Apr 2003 22:08:33 -0500
"J. C. Masias Guillen" <mgdesarrollo at uni.edu.pe> wrote:

> I have a 600E, p2, 366mhz, 64mb, 6.4gb.
 
> SPEED
> - At least, How much extra memory I will buy to increase speed as in
> windows 98?

As with Windows, the more the merrier.  RAM is cheap these days, so at
minimum I'd put in another 128M.  If you want to run the major desktops
and Open Office, you will definitely want more than 64M in your machine.

> - Can I erase the swap partition?

You'll need *a* swap partition for Linux.  You cab create that during the
Linux install.

> FN FUNCTIONS
> - If I only install in one partition Linux (I really dont want w98), The
> FN functions will work? or I must have a DOS partition?

You can't hibernate the machine without a DOS partition.  Note that you
don't actually have to install DOS on it - it must just exist, be
formatted, and prepared with the PS2.EXE utility.

> - The hibernation will work whitout a DOS partition?

No.

When I installed Linux on a 600 (no E), I used a DOS boot disk to
make/format a DOS partition (needs to be at least RAM + video RAM size
large), formatted it, and used PS2.EXE to make the hibernation file. 
Then, I installed Linux on the rest of the drive.

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