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RE: another dual boot question



On 24-Mar-2001 Steven Rubenstein opined:
> i originally asked "as you can boot windows from lilo, certainly m$
> hasn't accidentally  provided a means of booting linux through windows
> i presume. ???," and appreciate the responses.
> 
>      "Microsoft hasn't, but you can use LOADLIN which is on the
> Guinness CDs"
> 
> and
> 
>      "There is even a nice icon, .pif file, and .bat file to let you
> put a Linux icon on your windows desktop, and safely boot Linux from
> windows with one click"
> 
> prompted my thinking.  optimal for me would be to boot windows, only
> when needed, THROUGH linux, not from lilo, parallel to booting linux
> through windows (via loadlin).  how about this one?

vmware, wine and (I think the name is) win4lin.

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