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bloodeagle

Limp Gawd
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Hey,

I have an old Dell computer, desktop actually, that came with a P4 1.4ghz, 20gig harddrive, and a wimpy 180Watt powersupply.

Right now, it's sitting doing nothing, so I want to make it a file server. It will be running a Celey 2.0ghz, and, hopefully just 2 300gig harddrives and 1 20gig harddrive. There will be no CD-Rom or floppy, only a network card and the stock, crappy video card.

So will the computer run the 3 harddrives? What happens if I want to install Windows using a CD-rom drive on the harddrives? Can I do a network install? or can I just format all the drives individually, then install windows on one, then hook up the others?

Thanks for any help!
 
The easiest thing to do is temporarily attach a CD drive and then install windows on one harddrive, and then format the rest. Network installs are more trouble than they are worth, if you are only doing one computer. And even with multiple computers Windows is a bitch to network install. But if you're just making a fileserver, you could use Linux, and at least Mandrake is very easy to do a network install with, provided you have something you can boot the computer with (install cd, boot floppy, usb drive, etc.).
 
And that powersupply... It could. Try it and see. Probably wouldn't hurt anything...
 
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