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want Linux without rebooting
Name: darshana Date: December 14, 2003 at 21:06:39 Pacific OS: win 2000 CPU/Ram: p3
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My PC is dual booting with Win2k and Red Hat Linux9. I want to switch from windows to linux without rebooting the machine. Are there any software to do this?
Name: peter4u Date: December 14, 2003 at 21:15:51 Pacific
Reply:
VMWARE
You have to pay for it
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Response Number 2
Name: Audiophile Date: December 15, 2003 at 00:28:05 Pacific
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Do this: boot linux remove the windows partition using fdisk
Now you don't have to reboot...
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Response Number 3
Name: 3Dave Date: December 15, 2003 at 05:01:22 Pacific
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If you don't want to fork out for vmware you could try bochs, although vmware is pretty good. Here at work I can have windoze running fullscrreen on Alt&F8, just like a second X session.
One last thing, what is it that you need to boot windoze for? Can you find a linux alternative?
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Response Number 4
Name: drake Date: December 15, 2003 at 12:01:09 Pacific
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http://www.cygwin.com adds a posix layer to windows without emulation (limited functionallity) http://www.wine.org adds a win32 layer to linux (limited funcitonallity) theese incorporate layeres into the ops sys without emulation otherwise curently you would need to emulate the ops system
an emerging tech (soon to be out) is xen with xen you blow a copy of xp into linux to add win32 native functionallity
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Response Number 5
Name: Deputy DooDah Date: December 15, 2003 at 14:14:38 Pacific
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..or better yet, install VMware under Linux instead of under windows. Then you could run windows in a virtual machine on an OS that doesn't crash.
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Response Number 6
Name: peter4u Date: December 16, 2003 at 22:16:36 Pacific
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After all this advise, any response from Darshana, who posted this question?
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