Re: VWware

these are manufacturer proprietary GUI's (ie Nortel, Lucent, etc)
"General Schvantzkoph" <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.09.25.17.48.53@xxxxxxxxxxxx
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:22:53 -0300, toll wrote:

well there are software GUIs which are updated under windows, so the
small partition is no biggie.
also, there was something about a bootable windows disk? assuming the
installation cd, though i don't
know how i could add updated GUI's in this instance. tks

"General Schvantzkoph" <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:10:16 -0300, toll wrote:

is this plausible?
1) install win 98 to first partition. 2) install centos to rest of the
harddrive, dual booting. 3) install vmware to linux, and run win98 in
side linux.

any sites with step-by-step success story? Pentium IV, 512Mb, 40gig.

tks in advance

You install Linux then you install VMware Server. Start VMware server
and install Windows and any other OS that you want. You don't need to
do a native Win98 install, and you don't need to create a partition for
it. VMs live in VMware files. You can share Linux directories with a
Windows VM by using SAMBA.

I'm not sure what you are getting at. A Windows VM is just like running
native Windows, all of the GUIs are there. Since you want to run Win98
there is another huge advantage to running it in a VM instead of
natively, it will run on modern hardware because you won't need any
drivers except for the VMware drivers. The underlying OS, Linux, talks to
the hardware. Win98 will talk to VMware which will talk to Linux which
will talk to the hardware so it can run on modern systems even though
there are no Win98 drivers for those systems.


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