Replying to my own post, duh.
I just wanted to add that judging by the comment in the VMWare
FAQ that you pointed out (installing OS'es on phsyical
disk partitions, a feature that only works on IDE drives) it
seems that it uses _raw_ access. That means that it's
just a raw partition, you cannot boot it or run anything
from it anyhow, it doesn't conform to any file system.
That is if I understand the use of the word 'raw'
correctly in this context.
Omer wrote:
>
> Woops, my bad.
>
> Was it in the beta build as well?
>
> Anyhow, it probably won't work.
> You would have to use 2 different hardware
> profiles (as your machine running inside VMWare obviously
> has different 'hardware' then the normal install) - and
> who knows how Win2k will react to being booted under
> two sets of completely different hardware. On the
> other hand...it could turn out ok. Won't know till
> you try (this is radically different hardware now,
> notebook vs. a virtual desktop pc).
>
> In addition, what do they mean by 'raw partition'??
> It's not a raw partition, it's an NTFS partition mounted
> under Linux (I suppose you'll want to use NTFS as NTFS5
> is nice, much better than FAT anyhow). Linux doesn't have
> very good support for writing to NTFS volumes - actually
> a huge bug was recently found (not huge per-se, but it
> did mean that writes that would exceed the old file size
> could trash your whole disk by writing past the end of it...).
>
> Office 97 is not that large. Larger than it should be maybe,
> but you just knock off most of the crappy add-ons that it comes
> with. I judt recommended to avoid Office 2000 cause it's
> much slower (Outlook 2000 is much much slower on my AMD K2-350,
> I feel like I'm using Outlook on a P166). Not to mention that
> horrible Photodraw - runs like crap on a Dual P2-350. It's
> amazing :)
>
> Amos Shapira wrote:
> >
> > From: Omer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Hiya
> > > Something is amiss here. VMWare guest OS'es
> > > are installed on a file residing on the linux
> > > fs, not on their own partition. This means that your
> > > comment about being able to boot Win2k outside of VMWare
> > > doesn't really apply - you'll still need to install it
> > > twice if you want to use it twice.
> >
> > Nope. What's missing is that you overlooked a feature of VMware.
> > Look for support for "raw partition":
> > http://www.vmware.com/products/productfaq.html
> >
> > Also, from the "Disks" section:
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Can I use VMware with operating systems installed on hard disk partitions?
> >
> > Yes. Guest operating systems can also be installed on physical disk
> > partitions if preferred. This capability is currently supported on IDE
> > drives only.
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > > However, Win2k will indeed fit on a 2GB partition and
> > > have space left for Developer Studio and all that stuff
> > > (as long as you don't install Office 2000 and you'll be fine :)
> >
> > What about Office 97 Hebrew? That's my main need for Lose98.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --Amos
> >
> > --Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for
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