Re: adding Windoze

2001-01-22 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # Although it grieves me to say so, there are a couple of Windows-only apps # I'd love to run ... specifically the XML IDE XMLSpy, and a couple of # Chinese-language applications. If you're willing to do a little work, you might consider Win4Lin. Nice ap

Re: adding Windoze

2001-01-22 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:08:56PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > > All, > > Although it grieves me to say so, there are a couple of Windows-only apps > I'd love to run ... specifically the XML IDE XMLSpy, and a couple of > Chinese-language applications. > > Is there ANY relatively headacheless w

Re: adding Windoze

2001-01-22 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello Glenn, What I did on my last couple of bench-boxes was install whatever linux flavor I was pounding on at the time, but when it comes time to "partition the hard drive" I would add a 1-2GB fat32 partition along with usual swap, boot and root partitions. It worked very nicely. I would l

Re: adding Windoze

2001-01-22 Thread Bart Szyszka
> Is there ANY relatively headacheless way to add Windows to my machine, > making it a dual boot box, without first removing the Debian setup I have > lovingly constructed? :-) I've heard that installing Windows kind of > commandeers the MBR ... > I am running a part-stable, part-testing Debian set

RE: adding Windoze

2001-01-22 Thread Jason Mogavero
Have you tried running any of these applications in Wine? If they don't require any kind of 3d acceleration, VMWare is an option as well. If you're set on actually installing windows, might I suggest installing Win2K. It plays a little better with other bootable OS's on the same system. The W