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Re: Finally: Hebrew under VMware!
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 <omere@tcmail.tau.ac.il>
> > 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
> | glory, for its people had been chosen
> amos@gezernet.co.il | by the finest judges in England."
> | -- Anonymous
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