[TriLUG] Win4Lin(was linuux mouse kvm problems)

[Roy Vestal]

I did this. I gotthe parts from Stay Online. Drive bay and 5 HDD housings 
were $120 TriLUG cost. If you need to, it should be $75 or less.

On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, al johson wrote:

> There's another way to "skin the Windows animal". Go get yourself a drawer
> cabinet which mounts in any 5" bay and will allow you to insert and remove
> hard drives which are mounted in removable drawers (which can contain any OS
> you wish--Linux or Windows or both). This cost should around $75.00 (the
> last I checked--the ones you should prefer have vents on them with one or
> two fans which blow on your hard drive while in use--this cools the hard
> drive and makes it last longer to boot!!) .
> 
> Then search for an inexpensive hard drive (there's always several large ones
> which go on sale at Best Buy, etc. from time to time). You should be able to
> buy a good size one for about $60.00. Now you can use Linux and Windows
> without endangering either OS (as opposed to dual-booting which can prevent
> a bad Windows virus or hard drive crash from destroying your Linux
> partition). Then whenever you need to run a Windows program (which should be
> done less and less the more Linux programs appear!) you simply shut down
> either system, cut off the power, remove the hard drive by hand (these
> drawers usually have locks on them to keep them from falling out or from
> being stolen) and switch OS's. When my Windows drive recently crashed
> unexpectedly,  I  simply put in my Linux drive and went on with my work.
> 
> You probably already have a Windows OS on a drive already which means that
> you won't have to purchase any software!!!  So if you're concerned about
> expenses (and who isn't esp. in this economy), this route has a lot going
> for it.
> Bon Appetit---Al Johnson.
> ==========================
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roy Vestal" <rvestal at trilug.org>
> To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 9:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Win4Lin(was linuux mouse kvm problems)
> 
> 
> > Win4Lin is $69.00 (LUG price).
> > VMWare is $299.00
> >
> > The main difference is Win4Lin runs as a Linux process, albeit a HUGE
> > process, while VMWare takes a certain amount of your system resources
> > (i.e. X amount of your RAM is only available to your VMWare session).
> >
> > Also Win4Lin, you can set how big the C: drive is and it will "grow" to
> > the max, but will not use the full amount unless you fill up Windows.
> > VMWare takes the amount of HDD you specify as one file.
> >
> > They both have their place. I use Win4Lin for some of our Windows only
> > network functions, and I use VMWare for development of my programs.
> >
> > Just stuff to think about.
> >
> > Lisa C. Boyd wrote:
> >
> > > Michael Thompson wrote:
> > >
> > >> I have run Photoshop and Dreamweaver/Fireworks/Flash MX with Vmware
> with
> > >> no apparent problems, but my trial period is over and Vmware is just a
> > >> little too pricey for my budget right now... but it was *very* nice to
> > >> be able to run my Windoze apps on my Linux desktop. I have yet to get
> > >> the Win4Lin demo to work with RH8.0...
> > >
> > >
> > > That's good to know! I haven't looked at Vmware yet but if it's too
> > > pricey for you then it's probably way too pricey for me - especially
> > > since I'm lucky enough to have two computers here. Although I guess if
> > > it's cheaper than what I could get for one of my computers...the
> > > wheels start turning :)
> > >
> > > Thanks for the input on the Mac/Adobe/Macromedia stuff too. I have had
> > > some troubles with Adobe programs on my Windows machine but I think it
> > > was more of I was trying to do too much at one time for my computer :)
> > >
> > > Then there's the dream of video editing ... but alas, have other
> > > things I need to learn first :)
> > >
> > > Lisa B.
> > >
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Roy Vestal
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I'm not a geek, I just play one on tv.
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