On Tueday, 20 November 2007, "Ross S. W. Walker" rwalker@medallion.com wrote: <snip>
I should have asked how big your setup was currently.
The HD is only 40 GB on my box, a low end Dell Dimension 2400 (2.6 GHz Celeron) I won in a raffle. After I get this one up and running, I am going to switch wife and daughter's boxes, and redo them completely. Wife's current box has an 80 GB HD, which will give me a lot more room to experiment with VMware Server, which is something I want to learn about and use, until we get a box that is Xen capable..
Oh well, yes the Windows apps take a while to install, been there myself.
Been there and done that? I have huge appreciation, for the large number of packages that come from Upstream and are included in CentOS and the speed with which I can install the OS and so much stuff. And, for an example, the tools included, that would permit me to repair the WinXP problem, from the Linux side of the box, as you explained. To say nothing of my appreciation for the Developers of CentOS and the others who make this such a wonderful mailing list. I'm an old retired Assembly Language programmer (started with IBM 360/65) and I never worked with Unix, so this is a brand new world for me and one that I regret I did not work in, professionally.
If I were to re-do the whole drive, not knowing it's size I might do
it as such: <snip>
You can then install Windows from within vmware by making /dev/sdc a
raw disk for vmware. Once it's installed you could add an entry in
grub to boot into it.
I'm going to RTFM and I think this time around, make it dual boot again and also try to install Windows within VMware, as you explain. Next time, I will hopefully have enough confidence in my ability to do this properly, that I will only install CentOS and then install Windows within VMware. Thanks much! Lanny
On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 09:15 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Tueday, 20 November 2007, "Ross S. W. Walker" rwalker@medallion.com wrote:
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I'm an old retired Assembly Language programmer (started with IBM 360/65) and I never worked with Unix, so this is a brand new world for me and one that I regret I did not work in, professionally.
From one to another (IBM Model 25, 360/30/50/... 370/..) congrats on
making the leap. I've not done IBM assembly since 1980s, but still recall BALR 14, save area trace layout, "standard" register usage, etc. In '78 I leaped wholeheartedly into *IX. Encountered the shell and exclaimed "This is the way we should've been doing it".
If I may suggest, become *intimate* with the shell as a first step. Focus on pipes (and FIFOs, although less frequently used) and "standard I/O" handling with redirection capability. You'll see a lot of "regexisms" in there too, but a better and more "standard" regular expression education will be given in other things you might look into.
Then, the various file utilities, like find, chmod, chown, ... would accelerate your learning and enjoyment. Ditto for the text processing utilities (although Bash has incorporated some of those functions) like cut, paste, (e)grep.
If you still have the enthusiasm, C (and C++), (g)awk and some relatively new-fangled (for me ;-) ) thingy called Perl might have interest for you.
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-- Bill
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