On Thursday 16 October 2003 11:48 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:01, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Thursday October 16 2003 01:03 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: > > > www.phatlinux.com runs linux on a windoze partition, > > > even on windoze XP/NTFS. Catch? It aint > > > freee.....nominal fee however. > > > > That was my first look at Mandrake (6.0). Then phatlinux was > > free. IIRC a 170mb zip file, expanded to about 500mb in a Windoze > > fat32 directory, C:\Mandrake. I was dual bootin Red Hat and > > Winblows at the time. I played around with phat for a short time, > > liked KDE, so I got 'real' Mandrake CD's and replaced RH ;) > > Didn't MDK at one time have a product that did linux on windows? If > I remember right it was slower than honey during an Alaskan winter. > Yeah, I believe it was called lin4win or something like that. It is how I installed 7.2 for the first time and was my first experience with Linux. It installed Linux in a loopback filesystem, so from Windows, you just saw one big file that was your Linux install, and no partitioning was necessary.
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