Subject: Re: Captive NTFS Read System
From: Joshua Kugler (jk@as.uaf.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 15 2004 - 13:45:26 AKST
On Thursday 15 January 2004 01:25 pm, Tim Johnson wrote:
> > Win4Lin is really neither Wine nor VMWare. It provides a virtual DOS
> > environment (kind of) in which Windows 9x/ME can run. It does not
> > provide a
>
> I have Win4Lin 5.0 installed and have used it since ver 1.0.
> I'm not sure what you mean about a virtual DOS environment. Windows
> does not boot from DOS. DOS boots from window - has since win95
> perhaps 'virtual windows environment' is more like.
I suppose. But Windows (up through 98, and probably ME) was still built on
DOS. As evidenced by the fact that you can reboot to "DOS Mode." NT/2000/XP
are true operating systems, thus require more system-level emulation, thus
cannot run under Win4Lin (yet). That's all I meant.
> I haven't taken the time to set up Win4Lin with a seperate I.P.
> address, but it does provide that feature. (called vnet, I think)
I have...it's nice. :)
> When I experimented with Wine earlier in its evolution, (and I
> may be clumsy with my words, knowledge or memory here) it seemed that
> each windows program booted independantly.
Right, Wine emulates windows...
> In the case of win4lin - it's 'virtually' a windows desktop, although
> and system expert may define it differently, one does in effect
> have Windows co-existing in real time with Linux and sharing the
> same filesystem.
...Win4Lin runs Windows itself under Linux.
> Very nice. Beats dual-boot or switching machines.
> But the last time that I checked, Netraverse had not yet solved
> the issue of exploiting XP.
Right...they seem to be working on it. I think Win 2000 is their goal right
now. XP should follow from that.
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