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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions what is the best way to use Linux on windows Post 302205601 by armanox on Monday 16th of June 2008 12:34:56 AM
Old 06-16-2008
You're in trouble. The Pentium III runs virtualization software very slowly. VMware will run, but slow. Go download from vmware.com and see for yourself.

Personally, I would add another HDD and install Linux on it. You're wife may object, but, it is a very good solution. Install a lightweight GUI (XFCE, AfterStep, etc) and see it fly. Install something a little heavier, gain more functionality, but, at a major perfomance cost (GNOME and KDE are usable on a P3 700MHz, I'm doing it now.)

You have plenty of RAM to be able to run a GUI for Linux, or run Linux in a Virtual Machine. Your processor will run it either way, just slowly in VMware.
 

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MOUNTPOINT(1)							   User Commands						     MOUNTPOINT(1)

NAME
mountpoint - see if a directory is a mountpoint SYNOPSIS
mountpoint [-q] [-d] directory mountpoint -x device DESCRIPTION
mountpoint checks if the directory is mentioned in the /proc/self/mountinfo file. OPTIONS
-h, --help Print help and exit. -q, --quiet Be quiet - don't print anything. -d, --fs-devno Print major/minor device number of the filesystem on stdout. -x, --devno Print major/minor device number of the blockdevice on stdout. EXIT STATUS
Zero if the directory is a mountpoint, non-zero if not. AUTHOR
Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> ENVIRONMENT
LIBMOUNT_DEBUG=0xffff enables debug output. NOTES
The util-linux mountpoint implementation was written from scratch for libmount. The original version for sysvinit suite was written by Miquel van Smoorenburg. SEE ALSO
mount(8) AVAILABILITY
The mountpoint command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. util-linux June 2011 MOUNTPOINT(1)
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