Re: Vista hardware

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

flash wrote:
> Y'all,
>
> I bought an Acer tower with XP on it; I told the store I wanted the HD
> reformated to take Linux; that is, XP off, just enough drivers installed
> so the boot loader recognized its own CD-ROM drive. They kindly did so,
> but charged me for the work.
Huh? Every system I've seen in the last--what? five years?--has had
boot from CD as a BIOS option. No drivers involved. And anyway, aren't
drivers opsys-specific? I keep hearing about finding Linux drivers,
esp. for network cards.
But does that mean you've got Xy working under Linux? Emulation? What?
Please do tell, because I have had it with proprietary systems.
> In case anyone chooses to go down another road, I recently installed
> virtual pc v.7.0.1 on my Mac G4 running OS X. I chose to install virtual
> w2k because I'm familiar with w2k, but you can install most any virtual
> Windon't version including XP. This is far and away the best of the
> three solutions I have tried on the Mac (I gave up on DOSBox and
> iEmulator). The keyboard file loads and functions without errors
> (neither DOSBox nor iEmulator did).
Well, Harry's going to accuse me of paranoia and Socialist tendencies
(please!), but Virtual PC is owned by the bully of Redmond, and I
don't trust them not to disable something down the road.
As for the keyboard issue, was that DOS in general or just Xy? Because
Xy evidently does make direct keyboard calls. I wonder...can you use a
PC keyboard with a Mac? Maybe on a switch (a là KVM) so you could
switch back when running Mac native?


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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx