Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-17 Thread Geert-Jan Van den Bogaerde
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 10:06:51AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > Has anyone gotten the evaluation version of win4lin to work with > Debian? I'm running potato with kernel 2.2.16 and I applied the 2.2.16 > SMP version of the patch (the only 2.2.16 patch they had, even though I > don't use SMP) and co

Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 12:00:00AM -0700, Martin J . Hillyer wrote: > > Win4Lin works well (again, if you only want to run windoze). I've found > that for me it has a _much_ smaller performance hit than VMWare (both > 1.x and 2.0). YMMV. Has anyone gotten the evaluation version of win4lin to wo

Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-17 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:08:54AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 05:45:27PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > > Is VMWare 2.0 significantly faster than 1.x? I used it for a while and > > gave up. > > Somewhat. There are some bugs, though, which haven't been resolved. Both

Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-16 Thread Robert Kerr
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Lee Revell wrote: > With VMWare 2.0 on my box (Celeron 300A @ 450mhz, 320MB RAM, Quantum 10K > RPM LVD SCSI drive on an AHA2940U2W, TNT2 Ultra w/ 32MB video ram), > Win98 SE is sluggish but usable, like on a P233. The thing that really > kills usability for me is that the mou

Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-16 Thread Robert Kerr
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Jeff Noxon wrote: > Instead of asking the Debian mailing list for help with VMware's Samba, > you should probably try using Debian's Samba -- which works just fine. :) Okay, sounds like a plan. > > Is VMWare 2.0 significantly faster than 1.x? I used it for a while and > g

Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-16 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 05:45:27PM -0500, Jeff Noxon wrote: > Is VMWare 2.0 significantly faster than 1.x? I used it for a while and > gave up. Somewhat. There are some bugs, though, which haven't been resolved. Both are considerably faster in full-screen mode. There is an alternative called

Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-15 Thread Lee Revell
With VMWare 2.0 on my box (Celeron 300A @ 450mhz, 320MB RAM, Quantum 10K RPM LVD SCSI drive on an AHA2940U2W, TNT2 Ultra w/ 32MB video ram), Win98 SE is sluggish but usable, like on a P233. The thing that really kills usability for me is that the mouse is slow to respond - there is a noticeable la

Re: VMWare, Samba, and Slink

2000-06-15 Thread Jeff Noxon
Instead of asking the Debian mailing list for help with VMware's Samba, you should probably try using Debian's Samba -- which works just fine. :) Is VMWare 2.0 significantly faster than 1.x? I used it for a while and gave up. Good luck, Jeff On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 04:24:17PM -0600, Robert Ke