Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <41A612D2.5020203@x-ray.at> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 18:13:54 +0100 From: Reini Urban User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ratnesh Khandelwal CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Linux Server References: <41A60CBD.4070103@familiehaase.de> In-Reply-To: <41A60CBD.4070103@familiehaase.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: > Ratnesh Khandelwal wrote: >> I have two partision of my Hard disk one for Linux and Other for >> Window.I want ot know if its possible to run linux server on window >> with full use of window application as most of the time i work on >> window application but for some urgengy i need to have my system as >> Linux Server. BTW: You are completely off topic here. > You cannot run Linux binaries on top of Cygwin. > > With Cygwin you may build Linux applications from source so that they > can be used inside Windows. If you need just some special applications > this may be what you want. To run 'real' Linux inside your Windows OS > you may want to take a look at colinux: http://colinux.org which is a > tool that enables you to boot a Linux kernel inside Windows and gives > access to native Linux binaries. And this colinux which runs in parallel is even faster than windows. So you don't have to reboot just to get a linux. -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/