Carr
join:2003-06-20
Mobile, AL | reply to AZinOH
Re: XP added to a linux machine Sir MeowmixIII and AZinOH thanks very much for the interest....
I tried WINE and it crashed. Then Crossover and the installer crashed and produced probably 15 pages of error logs. THen VirtualBox... got XP installed no problem (this is what happens when you work on one project for far too long and are a little punchy from being in front of the computer for several hours without a break) but then the program for the Nokia refused to install in the XP shell saying the OS was not supported ( at least the installer attempted to run in Crossover eh?? LOL). After all of this in reading fine print on Virtual Box I discovered that the OS version (read non- pay) did not support USB which the phone must have to connect........
It does seem like all of this is the necessity to swallow an elephant to talk to a fly..... I read the Ubuntu article and its excellent.... I had planned to try something like this using Gpartd...but had not thought about using the native SUSe tools. At this point I ve invested more time than I anticipated with the new phone--Nokia support is horrible incidentally regarding their products and there is more information from the online community available than the manufacturer. It seems the way things are though.
In trying to resize /home on the laptop, if I decide to invest yet more time in this and frag the install then there wont be much lost thats not fairly easily recoverable. I can always nuke the HD and install 11.1 ( since I ve got that running on this machine, the desktop) after the fact of installing XP. Its just a whole lot of sugar to install a whole OS for one lousy program isnt it... I can transfer music and photos all day long with the phone in mass storage mode but for firmware upgrades and additional maps for the GPS, the Nokia software is necessary.
Thanks to both of you for the interest and the read. Depending on what I decide to do Ill post results in the next day or two.......Sir MeowmixIII, didnt know your dad was an amateur radio operator... I am as well, callsign is KF4VAR. I considered installing a mobile HF rig in the truck for this trip, an Icom IC 706MK2G--- I had it installed in another vehicle a few years ago and used to work mobile on HF from all over Mexico in years past....but another amateur in Panama cautioned against trying to cross all those borders south of Mexico with funny looking radio equipment in the cockpit and funny looking antennas all over the outside.... the trip should be an adventure to be sure just hopefully a good one. I ve gotten used to toting GPS with me on these forays and spoiled by it but still carry paper maps.... in hindsight it might have been easier to just have purchased a different less capable phone when the old one died and gotten on with it but the temptation to have an MP3 player, a phone and a GPS in one small box was just too great.... my old phone ran Linux and I did some modding on it a couple of years ago....but this new one runs Symbian although I read on some of the users forums that a couple of people have actually gotten Puppy to run on it for what thats worth..... anyway.
Again thanks very much for the interest. Ill report back on what develops over the next day or two with the laptop...
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 JohnInSJPremium
join:2003-09-22
San Jose, CA | Vmware Server 2.0 (free) and then a full xp install in a VM would work.
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My place : »www.schettino.us |
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Carr
join:2003-06-20
Mobile, AL | John
Is there USB support in Vmware 2.0??
Many thanks for the interest and suggestion
Carr |
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Carr
join:2003-06-20
Mobile, AL | Yep there sure is. Just checked it. I assume the VMWare server you are talking about is here??
»www.pcdistrict.com/vmware-server···-12.html
Thanks very much
Carr |
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 NS4683
join:2000-08-25
South Amboy, NJ | reply to Carr
You can just download the binary version of VirtualBox instead of the OS Edition. I have the Nokia map uploader installed in the binary version using XP and it works great. |
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Carr
join:2003-06-20
Mobile, AL | Did not know that.... I finally got things running yesterday and unfortunately ran out of disk space both on the virtual drive and sda2 on the laptop......all from inexperience on my part.... currently GPartd is shrinking sda 3 by 15 GB and adding that to sda 2. However...... its a loooonnnnggg process since I initiated the resize last night and its mid day today and its still not finished yet......hopefully by tomorrow  Additionally Im going to put another 2 GB of RAM in the machine for a total of 3..... I mean if you are going to have a laptop it should run pretty quickly...... I currently have 512 MB allocated to VM and XP and its not nearly enough. I figure if I can put 2 gig in there to join the existing 1, and reallocate a gig to VM then it should run better.
Sir Meowmix III I didnt even realize that this weekend was field day how was it?
Thanks to all of you for the info. More after GPartd is finished
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