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[Carlton Davis]

jez miller wrote:
> 
> Do you have this box doing dual-boot AND VMware? Having LILO in your
> master boot record and handling moth Win and Linux booting is the only
> reason I can think of for getting the lilo boot while in VMware. I am
> curious why/if one would want VMware and dual boot.
> 
> If you don't want or don't have a dual boot box, then the problem is
> with the master boot record for linux interfering via VMware with the
> boot for the Win95 partition. I am not clear on the details of how
> VMware handles this, however...
> 
> I have a cohort here at the office who has VMware running smoothly on
> his 770Z, I'll see if I can get the lowdown on how he set up his boot
> config...
> 
> Jamie Zawinski wrote:
> > Anyone gotten it working?
> >
> > I installed it from RPM, and it almost works, but not well enough...
> >
> > I'm trying to get vmware to run Win95 off of my existing windows
> > partition.  I set up a separate hardware profile as per the
> > instructions.  There are a couple of problems: first, it takes a
> > full ten minutes to boot Windows -- the BIOS banner shows up right
> > away, then the window goes black for 5 full minutes, with just an
> > underline cursor in the upper left.  Then finally I get my Lilo
> > prompt, and can launch windows -- which takes another 5 minutes.
> >
> > After it's up, it seems reasonably fast, so it's just something
> > goofy going on at startup.
> >
> > Once Windows is running, I can't figure out how to get it to talk
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