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Fernando Meira wrote: |
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> The question is...can you live without the windows partition? |
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> Well, maybe. The problem is that sometimes I need to use something |
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> that works only under windows (or better under windows). Besides that |
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> I only use windows for video-conference (I haven't found the time to |
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> look for a linux replacement, assuming that my webcam works under linux). |
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mmhmm... the webcam / video-conference stuff is not something I have |
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much expirience with either, sorry to say. As far as the other software |
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is concerned I would look at the crossover office fork of wine (assuming |
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that wine itself won't run it) or maybe some virtualization software |
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such as vmare. |
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> if you don't need it I would look at this: |
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> 1) Merge hda1 and hda4. Assuming this is desktop box that should be |
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> plenty of space for the system and applications |
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> Yes, that would be the best I could do. But, assuming that I can't |
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> remove entirely windows from my laptop, what about reduce it to it's |
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> minimum (windows + apps that I really need) and run it by VMware, |
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> always under Gentoo? The spare space from unused apps would merge it |
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> with gentoo's partition.. I estimate it of about 4Gb. What do you say |
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> about this? |
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With VMWare you create a virtual disk, which can be expanded as needed. |
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This is one way to go. As mentioned Wine is the other. |
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> 3) Convert hda5 to ext3|reiserfs|jfs|mature non-fat fs of |
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> choice. Mount |
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> it as /home. |
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> The reason it is FAT32 is to windows be able to access it. With |
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> windows away, I could do that. |
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Right. Keep in mind that with VMWare you can mount your linux home |
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directory as a SMB share. |
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Another advantage of a seperate /home is that you can reinstall the OS |
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without effecting your important personal data and settings. I realize |
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on your current system /mnt/share really handled some of that but |
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thought I'd mention it as well. |
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> 4) Consider creating a swap partition. Even if you have plenty of |
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> RAM, |
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> in my experience Linux just runs better with a swap partition |
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> mounted. |
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> I have. 512mb swap. df shows it slitted into 2 other: udev and none.... |
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OK... blury vision... that email was part of an allnighter. |
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