Chris Crowther wrote: > Jeffrey Altman wrote: > > >>server on a Windows machine, purchase VMWare and install a Linux >>distribution using a dedicated physical partition. Run your AFS >>server from within the VMWare system. > > > Tangentially: is using a dedicated parition just a performance issue or > is it a not-working-properly-unless-you-do issue?
The reason for using the physical partition is so that you have the option of booting from a floppy and accessing the partition if necessary. Placing it on a raid. Or converting the partition to boot on native hardware at some time in the future after you become comfortable with runing *nix. Jeffrey Altman
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