On Friday 14 March 2008, Les Mikesell wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >>> I tried long and hard a couple years back with CrossOverOffice >>> (CXO); and got to where it would launch and run Garmin, Maptech, and >>> Topo.com (but not Delorme) -- and couldn't enable any of them to talk to >>> any of my GPSs. Maybe you'd have better luck now. >>> >>> One of the machines on my desk has a second hard drive that I can >>> boot to XP when I want to bad enough; I'm in process of looking for a >>> sturdy laptop with XP still on it for the car. >> >> I left 25GB for xp to play in on that lappy, but the default boot is to >> linux. > >You'd have a fair chance of making this work if you install the free >VMware server on the linux side and configure it to use the windows >partiton. Even better if you create a virtual vmware drive and install >windows into it. You'll have to re-activate your xp, perhaps either way. > Re-activate? AFAIK, it still works, dual boot setup from the gitgo. OTOH, if Bill has had his folks figgur out a way to reach through linux, and trash the xp partition, well, sniff. On second thought, Nah, I won't miss it. The warranty is about up, and when its done, so is xp anyway. >-- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Don't you feel more like you do now than you did when you came in?
