I don't know about r83, but I run Adds Mentor Pro in vmware fusion with no problem.
On Mar 15, 2012, at 7:40 PM, Dick Thiot wrote: > Tony, > > Interesting idea using a virtual machine. I wonder if we could even run R83 > on a virtual box. Oh well, I guess I don't really care on that one since I > hope that I don't run into a R83 box any time soon. That just jinxed it for > me, didn't it?!?! > > Dick > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Tony Gravagno <[email protected]> > wrote: > Mike - he doesn’t have serial ports and you think he’d have a USB port? J > > A serial port is just a ISA/PCI card, easy to find in most junk shops these > days for a couple bucks. I have a box full of them. > > > > From there Dave needs a properly pinned serial cable so that he can reach out > from one PC with AccuTerm into the R83 box. Dave, you might need a > cross-over adapter for this to swap pins 2/3. And of course you need to work > through whether you’re using a 25pin or 9pin serial adapter on both ends. Oh > boy, get out those crimpers and the magnifying glasses… (Better you than me, > bud. ;) ) > > > > Another alternative (and much faster though more costly) is to put a NIC in > the R83 box and then negotiate a one-time / week-long license with EasyCo for > PicLan (http://piclan.com/). Then you can telnet into R83 and the world > becomes a much better place – for this week anyway. > > > > Another option that I have never tried – load R83 into a virtual machine > (free VMware Player). You might then be able to somehow connect “virtually” > through the serial port, or use PicLan as above. The good news here is – No > Hardware! The bad news – you may be on your own in trying to get this to > work and there are no guarantees that it will. You’ll need to look around > the VMware forums for anyone trying to make use of virtual serial ports. > > > > Completely off-topic for this thread and for jBase, but regarding multiboot > with Windows and Linux: > > You _can_ install Linux first, then Windows. But you need to go back and > re-install GRUB (or other) to the MBR as the bootloader afterward so that you > can get a selection when you boot. As mentioned earlier, I’ve been using > Partition Commander for more versatility (and I have something like 8 > partitions that I can boot from on one of my boxes). YMMV > > > > HTH > > T > > > > From: mike ryder > > > > Dave, > > You are lucky that you have anything of R83 left! > > Windows does not acknowledge that there can be any other operating system in > th world. If you want to install a second OS (even wen installing Linux) you > have to load winblows first. > > For serial ports, you can buy a USB-serial adaptor (try maplin) > > Mike > > On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:51:09 AM UTC, Dave Grenfell wrote: > > Tony: > > I'm back, all browned up and ready to begin. Hit my first snag. The > computer I was going to use for xp/jbase has no serial ports, so will have to > look for either an older box, or a serial port card. When I get this put > together, I will begin the transfer process. > > As an aside, I put R83 on an old Pentium 233 box, and it worked perfectly. I > then installed windows 2000 on the other half of the hard drive, and now > seems the only way I can boot PICK is to use the floppy to execute the > monitor. I guess the multiple boot thing doesn't work because windows > doesn't recognize the pick partition as valid. > > I will post progress reports. > > Dave. > > > > > -- > IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. > > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en > > > -- > IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. > > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en
