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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 21:43:36 +0900

Dell I7K with 10GB disk. Crunch time

Well,

The Dell is safely ensconsed at a highly secret location after a quick
visit to rescue it from the transport company.

FIPS 2.0 has safely cut the main partition down from 9.4GB or there abouts
(what 10GB in forked-tongue marketting speak translates to in real speak)
to 3.0 GB.  This should be enough to accomodate Win 98, Win NT 4.0 SP5 and
Win 2000 Beta 3.

The rest of the disk contains about 128MB of swap and a 6GB partition for
Linux.  In a short while I will see if TurboLinux Server 1.6 will function
properly, but since the disk is an LBA drive, with 1024 cylinders, there
should be no problems.

After that, it is on to VMware and some other distros.  With 192MB of RAM
and a 333MHz PII, it should run OK.

Nice machine, the I7K.  The console font is great, and the 25 by 80 display
fills the whole screen, rather than some small portion of it.



Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com, NS Computer Software and Services P/L,
Samba (Team member www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member www.zing.org)
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours

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