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.
With VMware you don't have to dual-boot. You can run both at once. In
fact if you have enough RAM you can run several virtual machines with
the same or different OS at once - and you can pick which one sees real
hardware components like the CD and USB ports.
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.
XP sees different hardware when running under VMware (because it is a
virtual emulation), which will trigger the license request. I've
forgotten if this applies every time you switch between VMware and
normal booting when you run from a native partition or not. You can
probably get away with calling Microsoft a few times, telling them
something broke or you had a virus and had to re-install since that's
such a likely scenario...
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
