[Arny Krueger]

"Anahata" wrote in message
o.uk
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:40:29 -0400, Arny Krueger wrote:

Do you remember how you got that working?

Unfortunately not. It was nearly 10 years ago in a
software development house where the product (a web
browser) needed to be tested on either platform (at the
time, Red Hat and Windows NT). Many developers installed
VMWare on their standard-issue dual boot systems and no
doubt I got some help from others who'd already done it.
Once up and running it just worked and was very
impressive.

Is it possible that booting off of real hardware was simply much more
prevalent in those days? If memory serves, back in Y2K common hard drive
sizes were on the order of a few dozen gigabytes or less. A fully
operational bootable, operational system would make a big dent in one. Lots
of justification for one drive equals one system.

Today they sell terabyte drives in office supply stores cheek-to-jowl with
paper clips. I stack up full backups of my own and customer machines in a
subfolder of My Documents on a terabyte drive. Hope I don't forget where
they are... ;-)