Fedora Core 2 on Microsoft Virtual PC

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 08:04, Tarek Nabil wrote:
> Hi Osama,
> 
> I cannot really use VMWare, as it's not free and our company does not have
> licenses for it. We do have licenses for Microsoft Virtual PC, though.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tarek Nabil
> 

I find it interesting that you expect Microsoft to allow their nemisis
(linux) to run on their virtual pc platform.  Some people have no ethics
and are very protective of their territory.


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> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 03:14:55 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Ossama Khayat <okhayat at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Fedora Core 2 on Microsoft Virtual PC
> To: tarek.nabil at isoft.ae,	For users of Fedora Core releases
> 	<fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <20040627101455.15001.qmail at web54110.mail.yahoo.com>
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> 
> --- Tarek Nabil <tarek.nabil at isoft.ae> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I just installed Fedora Core 2 on a Microsoft Virtual PC VM. I'm quite new
> > to Linux and my earlier installation attempts were not very successful, so
> I
> > decided that this would be a good way to do the installation while I have
> > access to the internet and other resources (I only have one machine).
> >
> > Anyway, after the installation, I don't seem to be able to run any
> command.
> > Whenever I issue any command I get an error "Segmentation Fault". Even X
> > won't run. Has anyone encountered a problem like this?
> 
> I tried installing Fedora on VMWare for Windows and it was very nicely
> working.
> 
> =====
> regards,
> Ossama Khayat
> 
>