Yep, you missed where I also recommended just that possibility. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Suhar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 6:08 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Looking for Wavecrest Visi
>I have not been following this thread but I noticed some discussion of dual > boot. Virtualization options now exist that will allow a host system, be > it > Linux or Windows, to run other operating system as images simultaneously. > You are limited mostly by memory on the host system so this would not be > an > option for older motherboards with low memory and a slow CPU but keep it > in > mind if you have a newer and faster system. VMware has one of the best > and > the server product is free. Microsoft has just released Virtual PC 2007 > and > I think it is free as is Microsoft virtual server R2. Of course you still > need to have a license for each operating system you are running as a > virtual image. > > There may be hardware considerations/limitations if you need to interface > with the outside world on USB or serial from the virtual image. Network > connectivity is normally not an issue. > > The Microsoft versions don't particularly care for Linux (imagine that) so > the VMware product would be the better choice and the performance is > better. > > See the link for VMware server product: > http://www.vmware.com/pdf/server_datasheet.pdf > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 6:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Looking for Wavecrest Visi > > > In a message dated 4/12/2007 15:32:53 Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Another way to dual boot that would be a lot easier than trying to graft > Win98 onto a WinXP drive is to just use another drive for Win98. Even a > 1GB > > drive would do. Most modern motherboards allow you to select which drive > to > > boot from. If you do this, I would temporarily disconnect the WinXP drive > while installing Win98, just to be safe. > > > Hi, > > I will try that. The motherboard is somewhat old since I have an ISA GPIB > card, so not sure if it does dual boot. It does host XP though. > > thanks again, > Said > > > > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com. > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts