On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 11:44, Lance BLACKLER wrote:
> A question re this post -
> 
> Does this work for dual boot with winders - or do you need to use the 
> translation software such as Seagates Disk Management?

Windows would work exactly the same IF you could install all of the
system in the bottom 500 Mb.  Windows 95 and later access the drive
directly, generally by-passing the BIOS.

However unix kernels that I've seen are all under 10 Mb - but any
windows install in 500 Mb is going to be tight.

<OT subject="windows" level="helpful" sarcasm="0">
You could move the swap file to another partition, and install all
applications on that second partition, but windows kinda wants to
install all sorts of shit to c:\windows\system and so on.  The windows
dir on my vmware machine is just about a Gb. </OT>

And what kinda performance would you get out of a windows machine with
such drive limitations - it'd have to be a 486 or a very early pentium.


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