[BL] downloadable Linux guest for a MS XP host

Stephen Clement s.clement at sympatico.ca
Mon Mar 21 23:55:21 EST 2005


t.maiden at att.net wrote:

> I am looking for a downloadable version of Linux that will run on a 
> Windows XP machine as a guest of XP.  I found 2 that looked promising 
> at first, CoLinux and DragonLinux, but each had difficulties that made 
> them impractical.  I suspect the problems stem with the way XP has 
> been re-developed from earlier Windows.  All the PCs I have to work 
> with are XP.  These PCs have been setup in a way that makes them 
> impossible to reboot from a floppy drive or the CD-ROM drive.  The 
> college doesn't want us students messing with them, but being able to 
> run some kind of Linux on them would be handy.  I am taking a 
> UNIX/Linux System Admin. class...

I'd really recommend you take a second look at CoLinux. Besides 
DragonLinux, you have _no other options_, unless of course you can use 
something like Qemu or VMWare, but VMWare costs a fortune and Qemu is 
quite slow and a little unstable under Windows. I currently distribute a 
version of BLAG Linux and GNU ( www.blagblagblag.org ) specially 
designed for CoLinux (distros have to be specially designed for it). If 
you are interested, please contact me.

Thanks,

Stephen Clement



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