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.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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