RTFM VMWare question

[Jerry Feldman]

In my case, at home, it is mostly a don't care. My Windows (ME) has very 
little software installed. But, if I retain Windows on the laptop I may 
buy, I may not have a way to install Windows.  
On 22 Jul 2002 at 16:30, Brad Noyes wrote:
> > You _CAN_ run Win98 as a guest OS off a raw/local partition, but
> > only on an IDE disk.
> you need to be careful when using a native parition. You may have issues
> booting the native Win98 partition once you have booted it in vmware. 
> 
> At work i booted win2k from an existing partition, and recently my install got
> hosed from accedentially booting into win2k nativily. Now i can't run it
> natively, or through vmware.
> 
> if you know you'll be doing minimal tasks with Win98 it may be best to make a
> new Win98 install in vmware. That'd be my advice. I used to have had VC++ running 
> in vmware with no problems.
> 
> --brad
> 
> > 
> > -derek
> > 
> > "Jerry Feldman" <gaf at blu.org> writes:
> > 
> > > Just a quick VMWare question so I don't have to learn to read :-)
> > > Given, Linux and Windows(9x) installed. Does VMWare install under Linux, 
> > > and do I need to reinstall Windows. Or do I need to install VMWare first?
> > > 
> > > The question is really twofold:
> > > First, My current desktop system is now tripple booting. I'm doing a test 
> > > install of SuSE8.0 just to make sure everything works. I use Windoz only to 
> > > talk to ATTBI customer disservice (which is infrequent). 
> > > 
> > > Secondly, I may purchanse a new laptop if mine is too expensive to repair, 
> > > and I would probably want to use VMWare. The reason is that I am teaching a 
> > > course in C at NEU this fall, and the last time I tought it, one of my 
> > > students was having trouble compiling a C program under Visual C++, which 
> > > was a configuration issue, but I did not have a solution. So, if I get a 
> > > new laptop, I should have enough cycles to run either VMWare or Win4Lin. 
> > > -- 
> > > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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Boston Linux and Unix user group
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