Re: [OT] (floppy?? and win 95) two questions -> VMware
Our Family is in a very similar situation to JH. We have Mom and Dad both
working in home office and two teenage boys all working on four networked
computers. Everybody needs some windows stuff but is tired and frustrated
with regularly reformatting. So finally we decide to put in a big mother
Linux machine to act as house mother for all those cry baby windows boxes.
We think it will finally work out once we get over a very steep learning
curve. We also consider VMware a big boost in helping the migration to
Linux because you don't have to boot back and forth!! It is tremendous.
Watching windows 98 pompously installing itself on a virtual machine in a
little window under gnome is an eerie and powerful experience. Can you
believe, I run Autocad 14 under windows 98/VMware!!!
By the way we were able to get VMware running on a stock Debian kernel once
we figured out where the kernel header files really were. The only problem
now is that it only runs under root because it says user doesn't have write
permission or the path is wrong even though all the write permissions in
every related file are set and the path is definitely correct. Any
suggestions anyone?
Thanks to everyone who's already helped us along the way
Hans & Galen Elfert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent West" <westk@acu.edu>
To: "jh" <thedoghouse@sunvalley.net>
Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] (floppy?? and win 95) two questions
> jh wrote:
>
> > Hello. I am still a Debian want to be. All that I know is win98. I am
> > in the process of a major hardware upgrade and have two questions I
> > wanted to run by the list.
> >
> > 1) I intend to setup a Debian desktop. I will be re partitioning my
> > 6.4gb drive allowing approx 4gb for Debian. I need to keep my windows
> > system going for a while because of some of the apps I and my wife
> > use. I am contemplating putting win95 instead of win98 back on the
> > smaller partition. My feeling is that every release of an ms
> > opperating system is much slower and more "buggy". I have plenty of
> > RAM and hd space for win 98 but like the idea of the smaller footprint
> > of win95. Any thoughts?
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