RE: adding Windoze
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 Win2K install will probably take over the MBR, but you can
configure the disk manager to add your linux partition(s) as bootable
options in the boot mgr.
Otherwise, you're probably going to end up having to rebuild that box
entirely....maybe a 3rd party boot manager might work, but I've never had
good luck with them, especially adding Windows to an otherwise untainted
linux box.
Jason
-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Becker [mailto:glenn@icarus.usanetworks.com]
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 11:09 AM
To: Debian Users List
Subject: adding Windoze
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 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 setup on a Dell PIII (I am
not at home or I'd be more specific, sorry).
G
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