From: MAHMOOD Z (eb139@cs.city.ac.uk)
Date: 10/07/92


From: eb139@cs.city.ac.uk (MAHMOOD Z)
Subject: Beginner Enquiry on Linux
Date:  7 Oct 1992 12:40:56 GMT

Hello Linux enthusiasts everywhere,
I have been on the market for buying a PC for a long time and it looks like I
am now going to buy one with a spec to suit Linux as I wish to install both
Linux and X11 when I eventually buy the PC in a few weeks. I have settled on
the spec below :
        486SX 25 MHz processor
        SVGA Monitor
        ET4000 based video card with 1 Meg RAM
        4 meg RAM on the motherboard
        100MEg Hard disk

as I will be running both Linux and X11 with a text editor such as Emacs, and
Gcc as my minimum Linux set up, I was wondering if any knowledgable readers out
there could tell me how much diskspace this is likely to take and is 100Meg
Hard disk a sensible option when I will also be running Windows and Dos 5.0
(bleurgh!!!) with Word 2.0 for WIndows installed on the hard disk....
Thanks

ZM