[SLE] Re: Windows install *after* Linux

HI all..
On Friday 22 September 2006 19:16, Paul Abrahams wrote:
On Friday 22 September 2006 5:56 am, Lívio Cipriano wrote:
If possible, the simplest solution is to have to independent boxes (win
and linux) and connected them with samba. It works perfectly to my needs.

Because of the licensing issues, it's not cost-free to put Windows on all
your boxes. But it is cost-free to put Linux on all your boxes in these
days of huge disks, so why not do that?

An interesting solution along the lines you suggest is to put the two boxes
side by side and hook them both into a KVM switch that enables you to
operate them both from the same keyboard, mouse, and video terminal -- and
even with the same speakers and microphone. Just press the hotkey
combination and your keyboard, etc., switch from one to the other (Ctl -
Ctl- Enter in rapid sequence in my case). The only disadvantage of that
setup, I've found, is that there's some degradation of video quality
because of the extra cables involved. And there's no difficulty in
networking the two boxes together.

Paul

This is not a bad idea. But I did it another way. Now that VMware has a free
server version I run only Linux with XP running under VMware. I've had very
little problem with it. One neat thing is that XP is one (huge) file that
once I had it like I wanted, I backed up this file. Now whenever I mess up XP
I just delete the file and replace it from the backup.

Hope this helps,

JIM


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