Re: Booting linux from windows over net (was: Re: Simulating PXE boot?)

2007-01-27 Thread Maxim Veksler
ram Was it a laptop? Laptops have tendency to contain special and nouvelle hardware, the kind that requires special vendor CD with addition hardware drivers when re-installing windows and kept Linux away from laptops back in the bad old days. Are you afraid to try

Re: Booting linux from windows over net (was: Re: Simulating PXE boot?)

2007-01-24 Thread Amos Shapira
On 24/01/07, Yedidyah Bar-David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/1/24, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've just realized that maybe the original subject was wrong and therefore pointed repliers to the wrong direction. What I was after is to actually be able to run something under Win98 which

Re: Booting linux from windows over net (was: Re: Simulating PXE boot?)

2007-01-24 Thread Peter
On 24/01/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ha :) This laptop is so old that it doesn't have an integrated network card - the net card is a PCMCIA 10/100 addition I bought her around 2003. No- Ha ;) I did not write this. I am not the guy with the laptop Peter

Re: Booting linux from windows over net (was: Re: Simulating PXE boot?)

2007-01-24 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
2007/1/24, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 24/01/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ha :) This laptop is so old that it doesn't have an integrated network card - the net card is a PCMCIA 10/100 addition I bought her around 2003. No- Ha ;) I did not write this. I am not the guy with the

Booting linux from windows over net (was: Re: Simulating PXE boot?)

2007-01-23 Thread Amos Shapira
to contain special and nouvelle hardware, the kind that requires special vendor CD with addition hardware drivers when re-installing windows and kept Linux away from laptops back in the bad old days. Are you afraid to try ? ;-) It was not a laptop, it was a bare board in Yes, certainly. I don't have

Re: Linux on Windows

2007-01-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 16/01/07, Amit Aronovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw, seems that there's an alpha version of QEMU for windows (don't know about it's usability status). Works great. I've got it running DSL in a windows on any winbox I sit down to. It's not too slow, and network connections, printers,

Re: Linux on Windows

2007-01-16 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:50:10AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 16/01/07, Amit Aronovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw, seems that there's an alpha version of QEMU for windows (don't know about it's usability status). Works great. I've got it running DSL in a windows on any winbox I sit

Re: Linux on Windows

2007-01-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 16/01/07, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:50:10AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 16/01/07, Amit Aronovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw, seems that there's an alpha version of QEMU for windows (don't know about it's usability status). Works

Re: Linux on Windows

2007-01-15 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 07:06 +, Oded Arbel wrote: On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 08:51 +0200, doron wrote: Gabor Szabo wrote: I have a Windows Machine I would like to install Linux over that. What are my options? Does VMware have a free (and unlimited in time) version that I can use

Re: Linux on Windows

2007-01-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 15/01/07, Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Windows Machine I would like to install Linux over that. What are my options? Does VMware have a free (and unlimited in time) version that I can use to install Linux on it? Is there any other solution? VMWare Player is free as in

Re: Linux on Windows

2007-01-15 Thread Oron Peled
Linux *over* Windows ;-) couldn't resist... -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum

Re: Linux on Windows

2007-01-15 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Oren Held wrote: A. VMware Server (formerly GSX) which is free for use. B. Dan Aloni's coLinux (Not full virtualization but very interesting and good for some purposes) - http://colinux.sf.net . However you need a windows X Server (i.e. Hummingbird Exceed or Cygwin Xorg) to get the GUI.

Re: Linux on Windows

2007-01-14 Thread Gil Freund
I found Cooperative Linux (http://www.colinux.org/) fast and with small overhead. On 1/15/07, Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Windows Machine I would like to install Linux over that. What are my options? Does VMware have a free (and unlimited in time) version that I can use to

Re: Linux on Windows

2007-01-14 Thread doron
Gabor Szabo wrote: I have a Windows Machine I would like to install Linux over that. What are my options? Does VMware have a free (and unlimited in time) version that I can use to install Linux on it? Yes, VNware server (was VMware GSX) it's free of charge but not free as a free software. Is

Re: Linux on Windows

2007-01-14 Thread Oded Arbel
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 08:51 +0200, doron wrote: Gabor Szabo wrote: I have a Windows Machine I would like to install Linux over that. What are my options? Does VMware have a free (and unlimited in time) version that I can use to install Linux on it? Yes, VNware server (was VMware

Re: XP under Linux/Small Windows Footprint

2006-07-12 Thread Eli Marmor
Cool... You run 1 OS (the emulated one) under a 2nd OS (WINE/WIN32) under a 3rd OS (Linux)... Actually, I'm doing a similar thing (WIN32 apps under WINE under a LiveCD Linux as a guest of VMware under XP)... The performance are weak, but not because of the double emulation, but because of other

Re: XP under Linux/Small Windows Footprint

2006-07-09 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Hello, While not exactly hopeful, I wonder whether anyone has successfully ran one of the following under Linux/Wine (the order listed being the order of preference): Atmel AVR Studio Zilog ZDS II Microchip MPLAB Note that I _did_ get ZDS to run, but not to actually

Re: Linux-based Windows rescue/cleanup cd?

2005-09-18 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 12:06:56PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: No, you don't need to buy a seperate CD. The partBE installation uses your machine's XP to create the bootable CD. You cannot install any programs on top of it after you burned it. Heck, you cannot even use internet explorer, or

Linux-based Windows rescue/cleanup cd?

2005-09-15 Thread amos
Hello, A friend will bring his PC tonight to my place so I can cleanup and try to speedup his Windows XP until his new one arrives. I plan to search-n-destroy viruses and spy-ware and try to make his machine more secure by installing Firefox/Thunderbird and maybe tweak IE/Outlook. His windows

Re: Linux-based Windows rescue/cleanup cd?

2005-09-15 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 03:39:09PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, A friend will bring his PC tonight to my place so I can cleanup and try to speedup his Windows XP until his new one arrives. I plan to search-n-destroy viruses and spy-ware and try to make his machine more secure

Re: Linux-based Windows rescue/cleanup cd?

2005-09-15 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
I belive in: use the best tool for your job. What I would recommend is not a Linux solution, but sort of mini windows solution. It's called: bartPE, it's GPL'd, and it creates an ISO image from your current Windows XP installation. Prior to making the ISO, you can add few programs (antivirus,

Re: Linux-based Windows rescue/cleanup cd?

2005-09-15 Thread Amos Shapira
On 9/16/05, Hetz Ben Hamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I would recommend is not a Linux solution, but sort of mini windows solution. Thanks to both of you for your suggestions. Eventually it turned out that our friend listened to my advise from a few months ago and viruses and ad-wares aren't

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2003-07-24 Thread linux_il
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linux laptop / windows refund?

2003-06-22 Thread Christoph Bugel
Hi, I am planning to buy a laptop soon, and I will install linux on it. Unfortunately it seems to be impossible to buy a brand-name laptop that doesn't come with windows. This means that I am being forced, more or less, to pay a sum of money to microsoft. rant I feel very strong against paying

Re: linux laptop / windows refund?

2003-06-22 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Christoph Bugel wrote on 2003-06-22: Unfortunately it seems to be impossible to buy a brand-name laptop that doesn't come with windows. This means that I am being forced, more or less, to pay a sum of money to microsoft. Nasty :-(. I know that at least one person succeeded in getting his

Re: linux laptop / windows refund?

2003-06-22 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
AFAIK most attempts at getting the refund were made in the US and Australia. Check out http://windowsrefund.net in particular the (US-specific) HOWTO http://windowsrefund.net/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=19mode=threadorder=1thold=0 I have no idea if there have been

FreeBSD vs Linux vs Windows 2000

2002-12-14 Thread Amir Tal
thought you might find this interesting : http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html -- == Amir Tal Founder, Owner Whatsup, Hebrew Linux Portal Voice:+972-8-9363164 Fax: +972-8-9363164 Cell:

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux vs Windows 2000

2002-12-14 Thread Herouth Maoz
At 11:56 +0200 on 14/12/2002, Amir Tal wrote: thought you might find this interesting : http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html A bit out of date, isn't it? It talks about Linux 2.4 in future tense, also on journalling FS. Herouth -- EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HOME PAGE:

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux vs Windows 2000

2002-12-14 Thread Mark Veltzer
On Saturday 14 December 2002 11:56 am, you wrote: thought you might find this interesting : http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html Too much in favour of BSD as compared to Linux...:). Almost all the points are history today and it only goes to show the fast rate of Linux progress...

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux vs Windows 2000

2002-12-14 Thread Guy Cohen
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:49:01PM +0200, Mark Veltzer wrote: The BSD people are in a real dilemma as I can see it: They do have a more secure and reviewed system but they fail to understand that the Wild Wild West nature of Linux, while maybe lowering the OS security some, is causing the

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux vs Windows 2000

2002-12-14 Thread Mark Veltzer
On Saturday 14 December 2002 01:00 pm, you wrote: Not expressing any constructive opinion, your paragraph here is just saying that BSD guys are more professional. That depends on your definition of professional. If professional is careful up to the point of stagnation then professional is a

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux vs Windows 2000

2002-12-14 Thread Max K.
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Mark Veltzer wrote: On Saturday 14 December 2002 11:56 am, you wrote: thought you might find this interesting : http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html Too much in favour of BSD as compared to Linux...:). Almost all the points are history today and it only

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux vs Windows 2000

2002-12-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Max K. wrote: FreeBSD has a.f.a.i.k. no marketing departaments, and linux, in each distro has... don't you think that if (although all the marketing effort of linux) FreeBSD still is alive, advances and kicking...it is a warning sign for linux ? i think it is. Sure it

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux vs Windows 2000

2002-12-14 Thread Herouth Maoz
At 13:16 +0200 on 14/12/2002, Max K. wrote: i hope you know that Apple's Mac OS 10 (or OS X) - is FreeBSD kernel with some additions... Actually, it is said to be something between FreeBSD and NetBSD... Anyway, this connects to the thread about professional maintenance of backwards

Re: FreeBSD vs Linux vs Windows 2000

2002-12-14 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 08:17:38PM +0200, Herouth Maoz wrote: Point being - since I'm sure my lecture is not easy on the ears of the free-software junkies, MacOS being a proprietary piece of software (with all the drawbacks) - you can be both professional in maintaining your user base and

Re: Linux And Windows File Sharring Question.

2001-04-19 Thread Shahar Dag
Hi The problem of sharing files between Windows Linux is more complicated than "use samba" Windows Linux have different file security. Windows file names are not case sensitive. Some Windows versions support file names in Hebrew. and there may be other differences that I am not awa

Re: Linux And Windows File Sharring Question.

2001-04-19 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:02:02PM +0200, Shahar Dag wrote: Hi The problem of sharing files between Windows Linux is more complicated than "use samba" Windows Linux have different file security. SAMBA, in it's latest version, claims to provide the UNIX list to the Windows mac

Linux And Windows File Sharring Question.

2001-04-18 Thread Stiven Andre
Hi There. Can You Please Tell Me Can I Get Any Directory In Linux To Be Shared And Avilable For Windows Network Neighborhood ? Sorry If My Question Is Stupid :-( "X-Kent" "Computer Is Almost Man, But Without A Fantacy"

Re: Linux And Windows File Sharring Question.

2001-04-18 Thread Joe
You have to use 'samba' to do that. - Original Message - From: "Stiven Andre" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:59 AM Subject: Linux And Windows File Sharring Question. Hi There. Can You Please Tell Me Can I Get Any Director

Linux 4 Windows ?!

1999-09-28 Thread Mike ALmogy
Any Request for Comments ? http://www.winlinux.net/ Mike -- Michael Almogy. System Administrator Mofet Institute. Cel : 972-052-562237 Tel : 972-03-6901415 Fax : 972-03-6901414

Re: Linux 4 Windows ?!

1999-09-28 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
So it is basically a distro which has a Windows-based install app which assumes about installed hardware from Windows registry and installs into a UMSDOS partition as a regular Linux distro? All that in case you have a ready Windows machine already (hmm, remind of Windows upgrades which search

Re: Linux 4 Windows ?!

1999-09-28 Thread Ariel Biener
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Or Sagi wrote: Relax Or. No need to be cynical --Ariel Thank you, michael. now the entire world can sleep soundly tonight, knowing that _you_, above all people, are going to download it. Who's the next person to go "Me too ! Me too!" ? For those of you that

Re: Linux 4 Windows ?!

1999-09-28 Thread Mike
I wonder when they'll do a Linux 4 NT. That might even be good for the NT. Mike Ilya Konstantinov wrote: So it is basically a distro which has a Windows-based install app which assumes about installed hardware from Windows registry and installs into a UMSDOS partition as a regular Linux

Re: Linux 4 Windows ?!

1999-09-28 Thread Nathan Fain
As Ilya Konstantinov pointed it, this is nothing new. The purpose, imo, of the WinLinux distribution is it's ease of installation. For the time being, one of the scariest things that a new wannabee Linux user run's into first is the Installation. Correct, they could install one of the other