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Partitioning and Emulation

Overview

• How to Partition & format of Disks
• 3 Partitions Made Fat32 file sys used
• Installation of Win98 & Linux Mandrake

• Installation of software on third partition
• Implementation of emulator software in

Linux

• Implementation of VMware

Why Not?

• Space Wastage
  • Bigger partitions not only waste more space for the same files, they waste a greater portion of the space
  • Disk compression utilities like DoubleSpace are more efficient for space saving rather than partitioning

Selection of Partition Sizes

• We were allocated a 9.5GB Hard Disk
• Partition with size in mind.
• Obviously Small files for small partitions, Large files for large partitions
• 2 x 3.5GB Partitions + 2.5GB Partition.

FDISK

• Always Backup . Uncertain about your backup hardware and software?

Partitioning

Fat32 Efficiency

Disk Size Cluster Size Efficiency

260meg 4K 96.6% 8gig 8K 92.9% 60gig 16K 85.8% 2tril 32K 73.8%

File Systems

• Linux has a very fast file system called

the Extended File System Version 2

(EXT2)

• More complex system

Emulators

• Like running a computer without an operating system.
• An emulator is something that duplicates the environment that an application runs in
• Mimics one OS within another OS

WINE (WindowsEmulator)

• Wine is an implementation of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs on top of X and Unix
• Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer

WINE Features

• Binary Compatibility
  • Support for loading DOS, Windows 3.x and Win binaries
  • Support for Win16 and Win32 function calls
  • 16 and 32 bit x86 code
  • Large interrupt library for programs using real- mode INTxx calls
  • Advanced thunking capabilities
  • Optional use of external vendor DLLs
  • Reverse-engineering design assures ``bug-for-bug'' compatibility

WINE Features Contd…

• Graphics
  • X11-based graphics display
  • Remote display to any X terminal
  • Supports full GDI and many new features of GDI
  • Partial DirectX support for games
  • Supports native Win16 printer drivers
  • Internal PostScript driver printing interface
  • Metafile driver
  • Desktop-in-a-box or mixable windows

WINE Features Contd…

• Wine API
  • Designed for source compatibility with Win32 code
  • Sample programs
  • Automatically generated API documentation
  • 32 - bit resource compiler
  • Partial Unicode and support
  • Internationalisation -- Wine supports 16 languages
  • Built-in debugger and configurable trace messages

WINE is Windows free

• Wine does not require Microsoft Windows
• Consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code
• Wine comes with complete sources
• Wine consists of over 650K lines of C code