[newbie] VMWare configuration

2001-06-29 Thread plsusa
I have my machine set up to dual boot NT and Linux Mandrake 8.0 (2 seperate hard drives). While trying to configure my eval version of VMWare, I saw you could access your NT drive (hda) for the guest OS. What configuration choices do I want to use? My choices listed are below, with the

Re: [newbie] VMWare configuration

2001-06-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Assuming you are running NT as a guest OS within a GNU/Linux host, it should be safe to access all the Windows partitions in read/write mode. As a precaution, I would access the GNU/Linux partitions in read-only mode, but it shouldn't be any problem if you use read/write mode for them as well