[KLUG Members] run windows within linux

[Bruce Smith]

> Ok so what problems or slow down might I face on my current machine at home 
> which is a AMD athlon T-bird 1.2 OC'd to 1.33Mhtz with 380 Megs of DDR, 
> currently only a 12 gg hdd and I have a small 4 gig (both hdd's are only 
> 5400 rpm but will change with my upgrade) which has my redhat currently 
> installed. 

You might be a little tight on memory.  If you run an old version of
Windows in VMware (Win9x), and only give it 64MB or 96MB, then you might
be OK, assuming you don't use a lot of memory in Linux.

The Athlon should be fast enough.

> Also since I have both redhat and mandrake 9.0 which would you 
> recommend being better for most things?  

But you're NOT running both Redhat & Mandrake AT THE SAME TIME.

With VMware, you're running Linux and Windows together, and both need
their own chuck of memory.

You actually have to tell VMware how much of your memory you're going to
give to the guest OS (Windows).

> I also wanted to thank everyone for 
> your help. Dirk told me you all were very helpful and I'm glad he told me 
> where to find the meetings at as well, which I plan on attending soon 
> hopefully.

Cool, see you at a meeting!

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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