On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 14:35, Anne Wilson wrote: > > In general, I have found dual-booting a waste of time and energy and can > > only see the point of it on laptops...for people not wanting to give up > > the Windows option. > > > Unfortunately there are some times when it is almost impossible to do without > windows. In my case, it is the need to run proprietary software, > dongle-protected, to produce a particular proprietary file format to interact > with a machine. I'm not saying it's impossible to get around the problem, > and I certainly intend trying, but it's not a thing to get running between > tea and supper. In fact I thought it impossible until recently, when I found > that the dongle-producer does do some linux drivers. Have you found the free vmplayer/vmserver downloads at http://www.vmware.com yet? You can arrange it so you don't have to shut down one OS to have access to the other. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
