Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 00:00:15 -0800 From: chip <chip@wiegand.org> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why dual boot? Message-ID: <20020127000039.SM01304@there> In-Reply-To: <3C53470C.8CEF3040@mindspring.com> References: <3C4FBE5C.2AE8C65@mindspring.com> <200201260934538.SM01304@there> <3C53470C.8CEF3040@mindspring.com>
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On Saturday 26 January 2002 04:17 pm, Terry Lambert banged out on the keys: > chip wrote: > > There is another possibility not yet mentioned - vmware. I have set up > > systems at work that run (spec'd by the developers) redhat linux and > > vmware with win2000 in the vm. My experience was that this works real > > well. Both OS's have full network access to each other and the 'outside' > > world. This also saves the extra work of setting up a dual-boot system. > > Granted, sometimes setting up vmware can be just as much work. Soon as I > > get a larger hard drive I'm going to do that on my workstation, FBSD with > > W2K in the vm. > > The problem with dual booting is not the dual boot, > according to anyone in the discussion so far (except > for Anthony). > > The problem is with the repartitioning of the disk for > the installation. The VMWare approach has this same > problem, with getting to the point where you can even > contemplate the install. > > -- Terry I'm not sure what you mean in the last sentence. When I set up vmware on the linux box to run win2k I didn't have to do anything with any partition, just had to give it some disk space, any contiguous disk space. I haven't tried it yet on my fbsd boxes at home because they don't have enough computing power to handle it, but my guess is it will be the same procedure. -- Chip W. www.wiegand.org <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+> Windows 95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. <+><+><+><+><+><+><+><+> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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