On Feb 9, 2010, at 1:03 PM, Mark Wallace <[email protected]> wrote:
> Your last line is the clincher. I found duel booting to be twice as > much work and, when I get done with both Windows and Gnome, they > wind up looking like Windows 98 anyway. > > The programs that I am talking about were written for Windows 95, > reduce the screen resolution when they start and probably he > wouldn't know the difference. They have a copy protect on them so > that they only run with the CD in the drive. I tried to speed up > their running in Wine by copying the cd contents to the drive, but > the program kept looking for the drive, anyway. > > It also takes me a full day to install XP from a blank drive because > it is an 8 year old program with tons of security upgrades and > teaser editions of programs that no longer exist. It's simply too > much ancient history. > > But that pentium 2 system would run the current distro of Linux, > just very slowly. I am tempted to put Ubuntu in it instead, use it > for word processing, and send him into his sister's room for the old > games. > > There are strict orders that he is never to go online in Windows, > because he doesn't know what those sites could be doing to him. > > The vulnerability that the virus finds might not exist in Vista, we > are afraid to try. > What I use to do was setup everything the way I like it and ghost an image. There are a lot of programs you can use to do this but some will require you to trim the partition so you don't copy blank data. Then everytime you blow it up just copy the image back. You could also try dosbox for Linux if that works for you, depends on the program. I use to just image the game there are ways of mounting an iso. Just out of curiousity what games? Matthias Johnson _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 3 - Sahana and 7 Years of MHVLUG Celebration Apr 7 - Nagios May 5 - Android
