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old harddrive question

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nertil1

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i have an old hard drive that i want to install on my pc
now i don't know how fast it is but it holds about 10 gigs

now my question is if its okay to install that on my computer and install linux on it?
and my other hard drive is only 5400 rpm, so will it slow down my computer or cause any problems?
 
it shouldnt but you'll need to set it up to dual boot if you want to beable to change between the 2 os
 
i have another question
is a 500mb drive sufficient enough to install linux on
 
actually provided both installs are standalones
you could select which HDD to boot to the the BIOS boot order without using Grub\Lilo\ect

as far as the size you would need that would depend on the version
check what it is, some distros will run from a Floppy Disk drive
 
RedHat 5.2 is ancient, if you want to play with Linux try a newer version. You could probably cram a very small distro on 500MB, but a few gigs would be a much more usable setup.
 
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