Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:01:20 +0530 (IST) From: Ratnesh Khandelwal To: Reini Urban cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Linux Server In-Reply-To: <41A612D2.5020203@x-ray.at> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Good Evening Sir/Madam, Thank you very much for your very helpful and informative answer to my question. It is much appreciated. On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Reini Urban wrote: > 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. > -- Ratnesh Khandelwal Research Guide-Dr. J.M.Chandra Kishen Research Scholar-Ph.D(Struc) Lab-Civil Engineering,Structure Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore Hostel no-1-S-95, Phone: +91-80-2293-2330 (lab) +91-80-2293-2405 (Hostel) Fax: +91-80-2360-0404 Mobile no...+91-98-8068-7126 -- 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/