On 8/8/05, *Sean Reiser* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
mmhmm... the webcam / video-conference stuff is not something I have
much expirience with either, sorry to say. As far as the other
software
is concerned I would look at the crossover office fork of wine
(assuming
that wine itself won't run it) or maybe some virtualization software
such as vmare.
Yes, that might be the best I can do now.
I been looking for VMWare and Wine and from what I read, I prefer
Wine, but does it run everything, most of it or almost nothing?
heh... that's exactly right. :) .... It really depends on who you are
and what you are doing. I think I mentioned that I'm using the
codeweaver crossover office port (http://www.codeweavers.com/). Take a
look both the wine site and their site to see if the applications you
are looking to run will run.
I read it is must harder to install/configure, but I'll give it a try.
Or is there anyone to convince me that VMWare is better?
They are entirely different products (I use both). WINE is an api layer
where VMWareis a true VM. You'll get better better compatibility at the
cost of RAM and performance. I tend to use VMWare for a testing
environment and WINE for running applications.
I'll erase my windows partition and merge it with gentoo's one. I'll
end up with ~15Gb for gentoo... which seems to be fairly acceptable.
In a future stage, I might convert my "share" partition from FAT32 to
a linux like. By the way, I use reiserfs on my gentoo's partition.
Will I have problems to resize it?
Even though reiserfs lets you do it I wouldn't resize the volume with it
mounted (seems far too risky for my gut). As I mentioned I would do a
backup first (can't stress that enough). Any time I've done this type
of work I have booted from a live CD, backed up (and verified), scrogged
and repartitioned, and then restored.
FileSystem Caveat: Although my last name is Reiser, I am not related or
associated with reiserfs (or to Hans himself). Do not believe that I
know more about reiserfs based on the strength of my last name.
> 3) Convert hda5 to ext3|reiserfs|jfs|mature non-fat fs of
> choice. Mount
> it as /home.
>
>
> The reason it is FAT32 is to windows be able to access it. With
> windows away, I could do that.
Right. Keep in mind that with VMWare you can mount your linux home
directory as a SMB share.
Another advantage of a seperate /home is that you can reinstall
the OS
without effecting your important personal data and settings. I
realize
on your current system /mnt/share really handled some of that but
thought I'd mention it as well.
Yes, that was the main reason to have my personal files on other
partition.
As I said, converting this partition will be the next step after
removing windows and installing wine.
Sounds like a good direction.
Good Luck.
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