Hey Mike!<br><br>DOSemu seems to run ANYTHING I've thrown at it. FreeDOS is a terrific body of code. So much so that several name brand PC makers offer theirs blank with FreeDOS installed instead of blunders.<br><br>Show GRAMPS to your dad. Native Linux geneology application. Data export/import may be an issue, though. I don't know. My mom is the geneologist and other than doing graveyard headstone rubbings as kid, I have avoided that field.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Mike Harrison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:meuon@geeklabs.com">meuon@geeklabs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> the reserved partition. I have always had to make a winders partition,<br>
> leave the rest of the drive unpartitioned, install blunders, _then_ do the<br>
> Linux work and partition the remaining drive portion. Otherwise it seems the<br>
<br>
</div>I've watched people do black magic with partitions and seen it done<br>
otherwise. I remember at some point they did a lot of registry edits<br>
to get blunders back in it's happy place. But personally, I've only been<br>
able to get it to work the same way you have.<br>
<br>
My Dad just brought me his top of the line Dell from 2 years ago..<br>
Blunders and some crapware are fighting over his machine. He's been using<br>
some odder software that would not work under Blunders. he bought a new<br>
computer because he got tired of re-installing Blunders XP to fix whatever<br>
it was that goes wrong.<br>
<br>
My weekend mission: Get his old DOS accounting system and WinXP geneology<br>
software running under DosEMU and Wine in Linux. Last month I got some old<br>
Paradox 4.0 code running under DosEMU in Linux. So I think it'll work<br>
well.<br>
<br>
Which leaves us with: Soon the question may be: Why run Windows at all?<br>
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