[ale] lin and win?

[Steven A. DuChene]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 12:36:34AM -0500, Steven A. DuChene wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 08:22:30PM -0800, Stephen Turner wrote:
> > ok so i got a win box and a lin box... my problem is
> > with wine i can do half the stuff from win in lin but
> > if i try to do anything from win im screwed cause it
> > HATES lin.. so my question is... is there a program or
> > something to open a command prompt to my current lin
> > os ??> my partition table is win on 1 and lin either
> > on 6 or 7... only 4 partitions total... one
> > swap...anyways.. can it be done? i know you can
> > install some linuxes in the windows directory but i
> > dont want a new linux system i want my linux i
> > allready have in like a telnet box or something i
> > guess... ya know pull up a terminal box and boom
> > running linux... is that even possible at this time?
> > 
> 
> Hmm, perhaps I'm miss understanding what you are asking.
> Is the Window system and the Linux system one and the same
> computer (i.e. dual boot system) or do you actually have
> two different computers?
> 
> If it is a dual boot on on computer and you are booted
> into Windows then you cannot "pull up a terminal box and
> boom running linux"
> 

Duh! I forgot about vmware. So yes, this is possible also on
a dual boot system. VMWare brings up a virtual machine that
allows you to run a second OS from within the first OS.

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Steven A. DuChene      linux-clusters at mindspring.com
                      sduchene at mindspring.com

        http://www.mindspring.com/~sduchene/

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