On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Rodney G. Garayt wrote:

> Is there an emulator, such as Wine or Cygwin or whatever, that I can
> install on my pc without having to re-partition my drive?

Phat Linux or Mandrake for Windows should do the trick for ya.  They both
operate on the same principle.  Create a huge file on your FAT32
partition, use loadlin to boot the kernel and the ramdisk, ramdisk mounts
the FAT32 partition then mounts the large file as / on loopback.  You can
probably dink around with it and create /usr, /home, et al in individual
files so you get the partition benefits without carving up your disk.  It
may or may not have a 2 GB size limit, maybe the newer versions use ext3
out of the box and have eliminated this issue.

If you're looking for a safe way to run true Windows and true linux side
by side without repartitioning or spending $$$, this is probably the best
way to go.

-Brian