VMWare Player is a different beast than workstation (and free). Though
with a little googling, it works about as well...
Levi
Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On 3/29/06, Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to make a Windows 98 partition on my
Debian laptop for my daughter.
I prepared some room then noticed Win98
insists on blowing away the entire hard drive!!!
If I install Win98 FIRST will it also take over
the hard drive and require Partition Magic to
shrink it?
What is best way to go there?
Why do you need Win98? If it is just to run some programs, have you
tried to run them under WINE <http://www.winehq.org> first? Or check
with the CodeWeavers <http://www.codeweavers.com> site to see if it is
commercially supported (the Code Weaver guys back the WINE project).
If you absolutely have to run Win98, consider instead a virtual machine.
VMware <http://www.vmware.com> makes their VMware Player freely
available. Someone like me with VMware could create a virtual machine
for you and you could run it on your laptop without risk to your Linux
installation. It won't have the same performance as a native install but
that probably doesn't matter.
Has something changed with VMware? Last I looked, VMware workstation
was available for a free 30-day trial, after which it took a
noticeable amount of money to keep going.
carl
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