I am thinking about setting up a second hard drive to swap into my old laptop I leave at work for network administration type stuff. The laptop is an IBM X20 with a 700Mhz PIII (or it might be 600MHz) and 320MB of RAM. I am looking to have one hard drive with a Linux install (which can have all of the typical network administrator goodies like nagios, nmap, ethereal, syslog, etc.) and another with Windows for doing NT only type stuff. I figure this way I have all of my bases covered.
Now I know Live CD is an option, but this model doesn't have a CD drive, so it isn't that great for me. Also Windows is already installed on the drive and I don't feel like messing with that install as it is joined to a domain, has some utilities I use installed, files, etc. So I see it as leaving me with two different hard drives. Or I could possibly get a larger one, partition down to the same size, clone to that and then install Linux.
Right now though I am just looking for what the best HD install distro would be. Thanks for any input.
Now I know Live CD is an option, but this model doesn't have a CD drive, so it isn't that great for me. Also Windows is already installed on the drive and I don't feel like messing with that install as it is joined to a domain, has some utilities I use installed, files, etc. So I see it as leaving me with two different hard drives. Or I could possibly get a larger one, partition down to the same size, clone to that and then install Linux.
Right now though I am just looking for what the best HD install distro would be. Thanks for any input.