dual booting XP and Linux

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 06 April 2006 20:45, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.
>
I've heard about it, Les, and that's certainly one path that I shall explore.  
Unfortunately I have other commitments right now, so it will have to wait a 
bit.  In the past I ran win4lin for quite a while.  I got on well with it for 
a time, but then later versions in conjunction with later kernels just didn't 
seem to work as well - slow as treacle, where the original install had been 
fine.

When I actually have time to do this I shall come back to the list asking for 
the pros and cons of the various possibilities ;-)

Anne
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