dual booting XP and Linux

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 6 19:45:05 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 14:35, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > In general, I have found dual-booting a waste of time and energy and can
> > only see the point of it on laptops...for people not wanting to give up
> > the Windows option.
> >
> Unfortunately there are some times when it is almost impossible to do without 
> windows.  In my case, it is the need to run proprietary software, 
> dongle-protected, to produce a particular proprietary file format to interact 
> with a machine.  I'm not saying it's impossible to get around the problem, 
> and I certainly intend trying, but it's not a thing to get running between 
> tea and supper.  In fact I thought it impossible until recently, when I found 
> that the dongle-producer does do some linux drivers.

Have you found the free vmplayer/vmserver downloads at
http://www.vmware.com yet?   You can arrange it so you don't
have to shut down one OS to have access to the other.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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