On Thursday 06 April 2006 20:45, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. > I've heard about it, Les, and that's certainly one path that I shall explore. Unfortunately I have other commitments right now, so it will have to wait a bit. In the past I ran win4lin for quite a while. I got on well with it for a time, but then later versions in conjunction with later kernels just didn't seem to work as well - slow as treacle, where the original install had been fine. When I actually have time to do this I shall come back to the list asking for the pros and cons of the various possibilities ;-) Anne
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