Then again, why run VMWare for Office when it runs under wine ? Larry Marshall wrote: > > > i got the idea but it only anoys me because i am trying to save room on my > > hard drive and if you use a mock install of booting of the cd into empty > > space or my ram then the problem is i have to install windows every time i > > want to use a windows app and with only a 6gb hard drive i would still have > > the problem of conserving space, if i did a complete install. > > this is why i would rather have a decent emulator so it can lie its ass off > > to the ap i am running and i would have the best of both worlds! > > I'm not completely sold on the idea of emulation vs dual-boot but consider > that if you do use the emulation you only need enough disk space to hold > the apps you're going to run under Windows and a minimal Windows > installation. There's no need to replicate browsers, all the utility > programs, graphics/sound apps, dial-up, etc. If you carefully install > Windows, removing all that stuff, it'll take up very little space. At the > moment I've got Windows, MS Word and Excel loaded into 370meg. > > Cheers --- Larry > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. -- |--------------------------------------------------------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone +27824722231 email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Centre for Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za South Africas first satellite: http://sunsat.ee.sun.ac.za Control Models http://www.control.co.za |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------|
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