RE: [ALUG] dual boot - problems?
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:53, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
Coo. That sounds exactly like the problems I've been having. Do you have to be moderately good at hardware to check for this?
Thanks, Jenny /me prepares to whisk new hard drive out of wrapper....
It may be Power Supply, to be honest unless you have a reasonably accurate Multimeter laying around, Substitution will probably be cheaper than getting the equipment to test such things.
Worse than that it could be ripple or power on spikes on one of the lines, in which case you are going to need even more expensive equipment to check it.
Just a thought though, Did you plug that Serial modem into either/both of these machines (remember the time you mistakenly plugged the serial port of your modem into your laptop's parallel port) did you try it on these machines as well. If so have you had the parallel ports working since then ?
Regards
Wayne
PS, You should try and convince work to pay for VMware, why ruin the uptime of a perfectly good Linux system by starting windows :o)
I'll try replacing the power supply then. Re. serial modem - no, that was a moment of laptop idiocy that fortunately seemed to leave no damage done (good memory you have!). This is my main desktop pc. I did have the printer printing over the parallel port from both OS until recently, as I did the sound. I'm racking my brains to think of any hardware changes I suddenly made (plugging in zip drives instead of printers to parallel ports etc) but can't think of any. I might bring the box along to Syleham meeting and invite speculation, if the psu change doesn't work. VMware - what an excellent idea. I was thinking of looking into WINE, but it didn't sound as though it would be over-reliable for msaccess, and I have to maintain a db for work in this (although I've just ported the back end over to postgresql on the linux server :-)). I'll go off and look at costs and spec. Thanks, Jenny
On Thursday 06 November 2003 09:12, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
VMware - what an excellent idea. I was thinking of looking into WINE, but it didn't sound as though it would be over-reliable for msaccess, and I have to maintain a db for work in this (although I've just ported the back end over to postgresql on the linux server :-)). I'll go off and look at costs and spec.
It must be said it's not cheap. not by any means. But there are a number of usefull advantages I use it almost everyday (admittedly the other way round, VMware running on an XP Laptop with Debian and SuSE inside) It has a number of very usefull features. You can make the virtual machines disk non-persistant so if you want to do somethine potentially dangerous a simple reboot will restore the machine back to how it was before. Anyway the filesystems of the virtual machines are a couple of files on the host system so they are easy to backup/move between VMware installations etc. On a decent machine, it is pretty fast, fast enough for most things anyway. The networking is cool, you can have a virtual ethernet to the virtual machine running over your hosts connection, appearing as a separate machine on the network. Or you can bridge between the Host and the virtual machine. USB, some ports, Floppy's and sound all work in the virtual machine. If I ever make it to a meet and you are there, remind me to show you VMware on my laptop. There is VirtualPC, that is very similar, but of course you can't run Linux as the host OS on that one AFAIK
On 2003-11-06 09:12:53 +0000 Jenny Hopkins <Jenny@toby-churchill.com> wrote:
I was thinking of looking into WINE, but it didn't sound as though it would be over-reliable for msaccess
I thought Microsoft Access was one of the normal test applications used for WINE? The comments on http://appdb.winehq.com/ don't seem promising, though. By the way, I hear rumours of a multi-platform GUI database client coming soon.
VMware - what an excellent idea. I was thinking of looking into WINE, but it didn't sound as though it would be over-reliable for msaccess, and I have to maintain a db for work in this
(Disclaimer: I haven't used it but..) You might want to look at Crossover Office - gets good reviews for stability etc. I *think* it supports Access Syd
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