eb139@cs.city.ac.uk (MAHMOOD Z) writes:
:       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

My personal setup (I haven't encountered any problems with it yet):
486DX/33, 8 megs on motherboard, 120 meg hard drive, msdos 6.0 alpha.

40 megs for linux (no swap partition)
80 megs for DOS (42 megs Doubledisk, the rest uncompressed)

One the doubledisk partition I have windows, Word 2, Excel 4.0.  The 40
meg partition has all my dos programming stuff.  The linux partition seems
adequate for the basic tools, GCC 2.2.2, 2.2.2d, linux kernal source + 13
megs free space (probably enough for X11???).

I haven't had any space troubles in linux, but the two dos partitions get
extremely crowded. (typ. 1 meg free on windows drive, 6-10 free on programming)

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