On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:08:56PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: > > All, > > Although it grieves me to say so, there are a couple of Windows-only apps > I'd love to run ... specifically the XML IDE XMLSpy, and a couple of > Chinese-language applications. > > Is there ANY relatively headacheless way to add Windows to my machine, > making it a dual boot box, without first removing the Debian setup I have > lovingly constructed? :-) I've heard that installing Windows kind of > commandeers the MBR ... ...
Glenn, I just installed win4lin, and it seems to be working well. The setup was nearly painless (you need to patch a kernel, build with make-kpkg, then the rest is very easy). It seems to be working well for the 2 apps. I think I need off of Windoze. Netaverse (the company that makes it) sells it cheap (these apps. don't work quite right under wine). Additionally, you get about a month's time to try it out with the demo license they send you. This or wine or VMWare obviously circumvents the straight install (unless you have some games... ;). Kenward -- It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he doesn't really need a college education, for he can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to thinking--something that cannot be learned from books. Albert Einstein
