[sclug] spare Linux HDD?

alan c aeclist at candt.waitrose.com
Tue Jun 10 18:44:58 UTC 2008


John Stumbles wrote:
> Forgot to say, it needs to be IDE or ATA or whatever rather than SATA
> 
> John Stumbles wrote:
>> The teenage son of some friends of ours has acquired an old PC base unit 
>> (1GHz, 128Mb) to mess around with and is keen to try Linux on it. 
>> However the machine doesn't have a HDD. I've sent him away to burn 
>> knoppix to run it from the CD drive but it'd be nice to find a HDD for 
>> him so he can play with a real installation. Does anyone have anything 
>> he could have (10Gb or over)?
> 

I have a 6.4 and a 2.1GB drive if they would help? I would have no 
problem putting an ordinary install of say ubuntu onto the 6.4GB, not 
much rookm to play with but it would work. It would require a minimum 
of 4GB I think to work.

-- 
alan cocks
Kubuntu user#10391
Linux user #360648



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