linux on a windows box

[Daniel Dalton]

On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, alex wallis wrote:

> Hi list.
> I'm very new to linux, in fact i'm really only used to windows.
> However I have a question I was hoping someone might be able to help me
> with.
> At the moment i'm using a laptop with 512 mb of ram, and a 1.80 ghz
> processor, running windows xp home.
> I'm wanting to get set up with a linux OS, but I don't really want to go
> down the route of jewel boot, and I don't have enough resources to run linux

What's wrong with dual-boot?
And wouldn't you want to move from windows to linux one day?

> under vmware.

Well those specks should run a vmware I guess...

> As I understand it it is very tricky to get a screen reader working in a
> vmware environment anyway.

Well no not really.

> The option i'd like to use I found out about recently is something called
> colinux
> available from
> www.colinux.org
> I was wondering has anyone had experience with using this, and getting linux
> setup using it and obviously running a screen reader?

No. But I still think your better off with a full install of linux to your 
hard disk.

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