OT ? Computing nirvana... new HP hdx laptop, F8 and dolphin. :)

Wed Oct 1 13:04:14 UTC 2008

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 09:31 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote:
> IMHO you don't need a Windows partition in this day and age...just run
> VirtualBox or VMware Server and then install a Windows guest O.S. under
> that.  I do that every day (unfortunately as a work requirement because
> they will only provide me a Windows based VPN solution).

My laptop has an eSATA port which allows an external hard drive to run
as if it was installed in the machine.   

If I ever need to run Windows, I will probably set up an external drive
and run it from that.  I have to check if one can run Windows from a
drive other than sda or hda... I am hoping one can.  I think just grub
needs to be on sda... or so I hope.

LG