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Pierre wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have installed Minix on a virtual disk under VMWare. For my part, there
> was no problem... But I think that you cannot install it if your partition
> is formated with the NTFS file system... (I'm with Win2000, fat 32, so no
> problem for me). If it's slow, just check if your requirements to run VMWare
> are ok. VMWare can run on a PII 266 MHz  minimum (but I run it on a 200 MHz
> MMX, it's slow, but it  work ;-))) ). And if I understand :  "Other OS" just
> meen that the OS that you want to run is not on the default list of the most
> common OS...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Pierre

Im running windows 98 and minix in vmware on a PII-350 under Linux,
i too have also noticed that file access is slow under minix in vmware.

Jon
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