Recently, I've been playing with a friends system,
trying to get a stable companionship (hypocritical I
know!) of Linux and Win95 in seperate partitions on
the same drive. Each, and every time I attempt this,
windows becomes selfish, and realizes its not alone.
I dont know how or why it happens, but it starts to be
"Unable to find sector x", where x is most often
0,1,or another basic sector of the drive. I have gone
through the headaches of making sure both the / for
linux, and basic Win95 are under the 1024
cylinder?sector?whatever? limit, and both boot fine
from Lilo.
I've also attempted to use VMware to run Win95 on a
virtual machine. Now although VM says that the min
specs are PII266/64MB/etc (those where guesses), and
my friend has a PII400/128MB, the virtual machine
makes a lame donkey look fast! Even allocating 100 MB
of physical RAM, and 100 of swap, alters the speed of
it negligably. And to top that, I'm not sure how to
access the cdrom (quite neccesary to install an OS,
wouldnt you think?! :) ), through the virtual image.
The atapi driver included with the CDROM seems to try
to punch a whole through the image, in an attempt to
get to the cdrom (amusing anology, or at least I
thought), and in doing so, causes a couple of dozen
segmentation faults. Personally, I could live without
ever touching a microsoft product again in my life,
but it would be nice to play some games/programs
requiring DirectX (which Wine hasn't quite conquered
yet).
If there is anyone who get this message, who has "war
stories", possibly helpful information, an exact
science of fruitless labor, or knows someone who can
help, could you let me know/foreward the message/send
prayers my way? :) I'd like to actually prove to
myself, and my friend that it IS possible! :)
Thanks,
Keith Snape
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