interacting with wondows on a new laptop//endnote functionality

[Kevin Cozens]

Sheldon Mustard wrote:
> On 8/23/07, Matt Price <matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> It was a while back for me but I did do something close to this IIRC:
> 
> http://www.venturecake.com/a-simple-guide-to-using-your-existing-windows-install-apps-in-ubuntu/

Thanks for that link. I have been wanting to boot Windows from within Linux 
using some sort of emulation or virtual machine set up for a while. The web 
page helped as I got a bit nervous when I saw the messages that popped up when 
I told vmware I wanted to boot from a partition.

I'm at the point where booting windows gives me a BSOD during boot before it 
restarts trying to boot Windows. The BSOD screen appears for such a brief time 
that I can't read the messages.

I think I need to install the SCSI drivers even though I'm only using SATA 
drives. I also keep seeing references to the vmware tools package. I haven't 
figured out where to download this yet.

In addition to the web page above, it gave me an idea of a search to perform 
on the vmware site. This let me find a PDF file which details setting up 
vmware on a dual boot machine. The PDF file can be found at:
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/dualboot_tech_note.pdf

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