RE: [K12OSN] Application Help
Bert Rolston (BertR@wanganui-city.school.nz)
Wed, 29 May 2002 13:58:31 +1200
Hi all,
On Wednesday, May 29, 2002 10:55 AM, Aaron Leininger
[SMTP:aleininger@ttsd.k12.or.us] wrote:
> This seems to defeat the entire purpose of going off of windows!?
Not necessarily. Windows is a lot more stable running this way!
This allows a transition from Win to Linux. I'm using this option at
present.
It also allows custom and centralised Win9x / 2000 configs.
To re-install Win 9x from scratch with apps takes about half my work day
(MS apps take so long to install). I'm employed for 6 hrs/day.
By using Ghost I can get this down to about 30 minutes from start to finish
using an image on CD.
By using Win4Lin NSSE running inside a Linux terminal session, I can
"rebuild" a Win9x machine in about 5 minutes. Trash the user home folder,
unTar the appropriate image, allocate appropriate rights, and the "machine"
is back up and running.
Have you ever wanted to write protect the Windows C: drive? I have, and
I'll be trying this on one of my Win4Lin sessions. If I break it, so what,
5 minutes later I'm back to square one!
So as long as we have Win apps that haven't been ported to Linux Win4Lin
makes a lot of sense.
Cheers,
Bert
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-admin@redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf
> Of petre@maltzen.net
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 3:34 PM
> To: k12osn@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Application Help
>
>
> Another alternative might be using Netraverse's Win4Lin. But you need a
> Windows license for this and I'm not sure how it would handle sound
remotely
> (if that's an issue with AR).
>
> Petre
>
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