>There is at least one distro that allows one to start the install from 
>Win95  (When I saw it Win95 was all there was.)  It also allowed the 
>installer to opt for a desktop icon that would reboot the system into that 
>distro much in the same way that it could reboot into MS-DOS.

Yeah that was what i originally posted, a msg. from the makers of winlinux. 
I think we can present that also in the book fair/compass to encourage 
people to just try out linux. without even partitioning the disk.


>There is also a product called commercial product called vmware which 
>allows one Yes! to run Linux inside a Windows window.  As well as the 
>other way around!  This is done via emulation of the hardware.  It is an 
>unbelievable app - it could actually bore through Windows HAL and expose 
>ALL the hardware - serial, parallel ports devices etc. to the system 
>running in the emulator.

Umm i read in an extremetech article that vmware simulates standard devices 
to the child os, that is the one running inside vmware. It simulates 
generic svga display card, an ide 5400 rpm harddisk whose size is user 
configurable, and so on. But i can't say for sure, coz i haven't been able 
to try it out. The demo given in a digit cd was corrupted. :(


Soumyadip Modak
RCCIIT,Kolkata
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