On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 11:22, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 17 Oct 2003 1:09 pm, ed tharp wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 23:48, 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. > > > > > > James > > > > yes,, not really a Mandrake product, lin4win, I thought it was a > > choice if you are in windows when you put the CD in and it > > 'autostarted', at least it used to be. > > Mandrake offered a trial of win4lin with 9.0. I installed it, and am > still with it. As long as you are running win98 it is great. > Windows runs inside linux, I can run it in a windows that is near > full-screen but still keeping the kicker bar visible, and swap > backwards and forwards as necessary. It uses your linux drivers for > peripherals, so it's not a solution for unsupported peripherals. > > Perhaps it was an older version that was slow, but I find it as fast > as native windows, and incredibly stable. On the rare occasion that > it has gone down you can of course get out of it without downing your > linux, so I'm very happy with it. > > Anne
that was win4lin , to run windows inside a linux file system (secure, and not to slow). not Lin4win, to run linux on a M$ file system (insecure,no permissions, emulated and slow,) -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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