It's been a while since I've played with it but Peanut linux may do the job. Can be installed on an existing windows partition http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/ Jodi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------- Jodi W. Anderson, Mr (BA, A+, MCP) - Computer Systems Consultant Waikato University Library - Computing Operations Group Ph: +64 7 838 4323 email: jodi(a)waikato.ac.nz "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before."

-----Original Message----- From: John R. McPherson [mailto:jrm21(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz] Sent: Friday, 26 September 2003 1:10 p.m. To: wlug Subject: Re: [wlug] linux within windows

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Basically my problem is this: I have an academic who is running win2k. He also has just

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 01:05:35PM +1200, David Nicholls wrote: purchased a

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scientific program that runs in linux. However he also does not want to have to dual-boot or purchase anthing more. Thinking along these lines

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as far as both he and I could remember, mandrake allowed you to create an image that you could load to from within windows and was doing a lot of marketing on this ability a while back. I haven't seen anything more about this on their site, so I don't know about this anymore. In the end I just need to know if it can be done with any of the distros rather than a VM of some sort.

Ah, academics eh?

an early way to run linux was to run it from dos, using the loadlin.exe program. However, that is pretty much equivalent to dual booting.

I would suggest that he runs the linux software remotely on linux machine and use an X server for windows to access the remote machine and view the result.

The cygwin xfree86 port works very well.

John