Kai Ponte wrote: > For some reason, the first thought I had, while lying there in pain > was - hey: I can install XP on a smallish partition and have them > encrypt that. Then I install SUSE 10.3 on the rest of the machine and > it will be "compliant". >
Another idea: I have a very satisfactory installation of XP-Pro running in a VirtualBox VM. Actually, I don't need it for anything, and I don't use it for anything, but I had an extra XP-Pro license here, and wanted to give it a try. So far, VirtualBox seems just as easy to use as VMware or VirtualPC, and may even be more capable than either of those. Run full-screen, it's hart to tell a VM session from an ordinary session, but to change from XP to Linux you won't need to reboot. And if you ever want to move the XP virtual machine (and its virtual hard drive) to a new or different laptop, that's trivial. Much more so that reinstalling XP, applying all the available updates, then reinstalling all the Windows applications you use and copying their working data. You essentially just copy a couple of files (one large, one small), and you're ready to launch it there. Pretty easy to do backups, too, since all you need to do is copy the virtual hard drive to a safe place now and then. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
