[wplug] virtual pc?
Doug Green
diego96 at mac.com
Thu Aug 14 09:14:09 EDT 2003
Thanks all-
I tried it out, and it worked, but it was really REALLY slow. I think
I'd rather dual-boot. Anyways, thanks for the help!
D
On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 09:02 AM, wplug at badgertronics.com
wrote:
>> Anyone ever set up linux within Virtual PC (for mac in my case)?
>
> I have. I've also gotten Oracle running on Linux on Virtual PC
> for Mac (OS 9 back when I did it) Over the course of a couple
> of installfests I finally got it working.
>
> ObScreenshot: http://badgertronics.com/hacks/oraclemac.gif
>
> And some notes:
>
> http://badgertronics.com/writings/oracle/mac-oracle
>
> Virtual PC and/or the linux distrubtions may have changed
> sufficiently to make these notes moot, but ya never know.
>
> And as folks have said, the VPC 'drives' are just humongous files
> on your hard drive. It doesn't mess with your fundamental disk
> partitioning.
>
> Cheers,
> ++Mark Dalrymple, markd at badgertronics.com. http://badgertronics.com
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