On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 10:38:48PM +1000, Colin Tree wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Just noticed something called VMware, a pc emulator which creates
> a virtual pc. Rock solid, runs ms-dos, windows 3.x, 95, 98, NT, 2000 beta.
> Needs a fast machine with heaps of ram and doesn't support DirectX.
> Has anyone
Hi,
Just noticed something called VMware, a pc emulator which creates
a virtual pc. Rock solid, runs ms-dos, windows 3.x, 95, 98, NT, 2000 beta.
Needs a fast machine with heaps of ram and doesn't support DirectX.
Has anyone tried this software ?
http://www.vmware.com
>also, is there any way to s
Revenant:
Great that you should contribute back to the liet! congratulations.
The package you mention is WABI, "Windows Application Binary
Interface" or something like that, it is commercial, and as I recall
it only works for 3.1 applications. It has been a long time since I
looked.
This is the
Will Lowe wrote:
> > floppy. The only thing i can think of is keeping them on the second
> > drive while the first drive makes the conversion to linux, then im
> > hoping that in linux i can still access the non-linux second drive,
> Sure. Linux can read disk drives that have been formatted unde
*- On 25 Jun, Revenant wrote about "Re: I need some info/piece of mind before
installing linux"
>
> I believe there is a UNIX win emulator called WAPI, but it's commercial
> and I don't know how much it would cost.
It's WABI.
There is also VMware(www.vmware
Mounting an MS-DOS filesystem should work - I was doing that until I
realised you could do VFAT. You'll just be without your
long filenames.
There is a Windows 'emulator' called "WINE" for Linux but it's not 100%
reliable and is still listed as a developer's-only alpha release to the
best of my k
Gentleman Loser wrote:
> I guess all in all im fine with just blazing over my hard drive with
> linux, but i really want to keep my mp3 files, text/doc/wri files, my
> webpage, and real audio files. If you could only tell me one thing it
> would be how i could carry these things over to linux. I
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Gentleman Loser wrote:
> I got a CD with the Debian realease(a cd from the Boot Magazine's
> suplementary CD).
>
> I guess all in all im fine with just blazing over my hard drive
> with linux, but i really want to keep my mp3 files, text/doc/wri
> files, my webpage, and rea
> floppy. The only thing i can think of is keeping them on the second
> drive while the first drive makes the conversion to linux, then im
> hoping that in linux i can still access the non-linux second drive,
Sure. Linux can read disk drives that have been formatted under Windows,
no problem.
>
I got a CD with the Debian realease(a cd from
the Boot Magazine's suplementary CD).
I guess all in all im fine with just blazing over my hard
drive with linux, but i really want to keep my mp3 files, text/doc/wri files, my
webpage, and real audio files. If you could only tell me one thi
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