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Re: Getting info from Win '95 before removing it



Ian Lynagh <ian@lynagh.demon.co.uk> writes:

> On the release of Hamm I will be taking Win'95 off my 486 and replacing
> it with Linux (BTW, does 40 meg swap partition sound about right for
> 8 megs of RAM (total HD size=340MB)?).

It sounds much too big.  I would definitely NOT have swap space more
than about twice my physical memory.
 
> Before removing Win'95 is there anywhere I can get any information
> which may be useful to Linux? I have printed a full report from device
> manager.

You'll probably want to also get information specific to your isp -
mainly, you'll want the IP addresses of the DNS servers (this will be
under the "properties" of TCP/IP networking in the network control
panel), and of course things like what number to dial.


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