Hi,
when all you want is to save the few 100 MB of windows, did you consider
installing a shared network installation ? I didn't check wether 98 has
it, but it is a standart feature in 95 and had to be done with special
netsetup program (read the resource kit for more info). I tried it once
and got it working :-). It probably also could work without network, but
with local "shared windir". ofcourse you wouldn't have implicitly shared
apps etc.
my 2 ag. on Win9X
Schlomo
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Amos Shapira wrote:
> On Mon, May 3 1999, "Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> :
> |AS>> My situation is a bit different in that the Lose98 partition can
> |AS>> self-boot (i.e. it's what is called "Raw IDE partition" in VMware
> |AS>> terms, as opposed to a file under a Linux partition). It's already
> |AS>> installed and works well (well, as far as Lose98 can work :) when
> |AS>> booted alone.
> |
> |I fear VMWare has some own disk structure, which is different from plain
> |partition. I.e., it maybe can't recognize formatted FAT partition as it's
>
> Of course it has its own disk structure when used in a file under
> Linux, but it also supports raw partitions, which should allow you to
> boot an already-installed Win98 partition under VMware
> (see .http://www.vmware.com/support/rawdevices.html).
>
> I'm aware of the warning at the beginning of this page, but still it
> sounds like I can basically expect it to work.
>
> |But you may use following trick - mount it under Linux and the re-mount
> |via SAMBA in windows. This works for data or external programs, but not
> |for Windows itself.
>
> Which would miss the whole point since I want to save the few hundreds
> of megabytes taken by windows itself.
>
> --Amos
>
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