Hi Rugxulo, On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > Vista and 7 let you resize the NTFS partition. With XP you may have to > use (external) GParted (on a Linux liveCD), which is a little tricker. > Then ideally you'd maybe (?) use EasyBCD to configure the Windows > bootloader (as I don't think GRUB cooperates very well, at least > IMHO). > > Thanks for this good idea. I'll try that. > > so the option would be limited to a Virtual Machine. Thus I'll try your > > idea, with DeLi + DOSEMU inside VMware or Virtual Box. Thank you for your > > idea. > > It's certainly safer / easier to install in VM but perhaps slower and > buggier (depending). > Yes, I still want to do this. To try run in VM and if it works fine then it should be fine on physical hardware. > > Well, Connochaet (sp?) is based upon ArchLinux now, so perhaps it's > more compatible than even old DeLi was. I just know that DeLi (esp. > before the Unicode-aware 0.8.0) was very very light on RAM. Of course, > who knows, perhaps uclibc had bugs re: DOSEMU anyways, dunno. :-/ > > But MicroCore might work too, and personally I'd probably try that > first. (My other PC uses Lucid PuppyLinux, partially Ubuntu > compatible, and DOSEMU works fine there. But it's not super ultra > minimal, it's got X11 and other stuff, totals about 130 MB.) > > Anyways, I dunno, sometimes things work, sometimes they don't. You > never know until you try. That's all part of the fun (and frustration) > with computers. ;-) > > Nice recommendations. I'll try DeLi first, because I'm not so much a Linux power user. Best regards, Robbie
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