Re: Networking/wine


Subject: Re: Networking/wine
From: volz (volz@koyukuk.at.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 16 2002 - 17:04:02 AKST


Hey there:

Everything here is a dual boot, no big deal to have that, but it is mostly just
a pain. Three boots I donknow. If you have boot media, lilo and grub should get
you there. I like the VMware approach because who wants to reboot all the time?
although I don't know how much you have researched the options, as a green linux
user my recommendation may not mean much, but here it is.

Check out Win4lin. It is available for Win98. The two versions I have used have
worked really well. It requires a kernel tweak, (in this case not a big deal
because of the installer), but when you are done. Win98 is more stable than it
has ever been on any architecture I have had experience with. I use the
networking and network printing. Never have to reboot. The only hitch and
complaint is graphics intensive applications grind everything to a halt.
Actually everything windows to a halt but if you disable Ctl-Alt-Del on X then
you can bust out of Win 98 when it hangs.

Actually there are a few other hitches:
 if you already have a lot of data on your windows partition, I don't know how
you graft that into the windows on your linux box. maybe you mount that
partition? Michael do you know? I know you can mount partitions on the /win
directory. Haven't tried it yet though.
 the graphics hitch I mentioned.
 there may not be an up to date kernel for the latest or even slightly exotic
distributions.
 No XP.
 
The reason this is perhaps is not real popular might be Win$Lin is not GPL. It
costs about $90. That, and the fact that we run dreadhate 8.0. So that
distribution has pre-built kernels which makes the process pretty painless.

Have fun,

Karl Volz

volz@aeff.uaa.alaska.edu
 
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>Thanks George and everyone else. I think I know a little more about
>networking now.
>
>My next project will be after Christmas.
>I am going to buy a new hard drive. Hopefully, a 60 gig or better. What I
>want to do is to make a triple boot system. Partition the 60 gig into three
>20 gig partitions. Put Windows XP or 98 (I need Windows for school), SuSE
>8.1and Mandrake 9.0 Power Pack on the three separate partitions. I'll most
>likely end up taking my computer and the 3 operatiing systems to a Friday
>meeting and let you all help me install all three.
>Does anybody have a triple-boot, or more, system??
>
>Matt
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>Fielder George Dowding wrote:
>Greetings Matthew, I have had ACS DSL for well over a year (about 18 months
>Ithink). I have my Gnu/Debian/Linux box acting as the Internet server
>(firewall, router). This set up requires two Ethernet interfaces in this
>box.One (eth0 in my case) serves my LAN through a hub. The other (eth1)
>connects to the DSL modem provided by ACS. I have both Linux/BSD and W98
>boxen on the LAN. I also connect my laptop and the odd experimental box from
>time to time to the hub. It works perfectly. I located the DSL modem at the
>point where my telephone line entered my mobile home. I had to break the
>inside telephone wiring at this point, but by doing this, the single filter
>provided by ACS serves all the extensions I had installed. I did have to run
>a long ethernet cable from the DSL modem to where my firewall/router is
>located. If you need a long cable, you can buy a length from Frigid North
>andput the connectors on yourself. Ask someone at the Friday night
>laboratorysessions for help. I always have my compression tool (for RJ45 and
>RJ11 connectors) and both flavors of connectors in my van. Cheerio! On Sun,
>15 Dec 2002 12:05:18 -0800 Matthew Dunaway <fert@eagle.ptialaska.net>[1]
>wrote: Hello, I am getting DSL next week. :-) My question is, I have SuSE
>8.1Personal. My wife's computer has Windows 98SE Can I share DSL with both
>operating systems? Or do I have to have Linux on both? I also have Mandrake
>9.0 Power Pack, but it is not installed yet. I have a 20 gig hard drive, but
>would like to get another drive (80 gig or better). Windows XP takes up more
>than half of my 20 gig drive, and I don't want to remove SuSE, considering
>ittook me a week to get it on the internet. My wife's computer only has a 4
>gig drive, so a dual-boot is not an option at this point. Besides, I don't
>think she is interested in learing Linux anyway. It took me 8 months or so
>toteach her 98SE. (She had a stroke, so her memory is not what it used to
>be.:-( ) Thanks Matt --------- To unsubscribe, send email to
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