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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> t.maiden AT att.net wrote:
> > But I already had a internet connection established on the "host" side.
>
> I don't know what that means.  BasicLinux is a self-contained
> operating system.

He's booting the BL2 iso using qemu--a virtual machine application the 
allows you to run other operating systems within a host operating system. 
He's using WinXP and a version of qemu compiled for Windows, so his host 
machine runs XP, while qemu is booting BL2 as a sort of application.  Sort 
of like a DOS box, only Linux runs within the box rather than a DOS shell. 
Almost any other OS can run in that same box: BSD, other versions of Win, 
OS/2(?), all flavors of Linux.  Mac would be the exception, I believe.

James