Blog - PC-Installation
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As I said in a previous note, I work more and more with Linux, and less and less with windows.
I tried to start my windows in VirtualBox as physical installation guest in a CentOS host. But I never succeed to start windows.
The most important things to me was to have a access to the files stored on the NTFS partition. And also to run some programs existing in Windows world and not Linux.
1) First, I can access my NTFS disks with
Here it's the official site:
http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/
But the packages are available thru EPEL repository.
I don't remind how I setup the EPEL repo, but here the command to check if the repo is available for yum:
#List new repo:
yum repolist
yum install ntfs-3g ntfsprogs
Installed:
ntfs-3g.x86_64 2:2011.4.12-5.el6 ntfsprogs.x86_64 2:2011.4.12-5.el6
And after that, any NTFS volume from my windows or external hard disk can be mounted and the content can be visible from my Linux.
Also all accesses can be done (not only reading).
For one year from now, it's working perfectly.
2) Second step, I installed WINE which can run windows programs inside Linux.
Well, it's pretty good. I didn't try all the programs, but I have some, which are very useful and I don't find the equivalent in Linux.
Also, I tried my favorite editor in windows : Crimson editor. I can use it but, when I save a shell program, it loose all its running credentials. too bad...
I hope a day, it will be ported in Linux.
At this point I can use all Windows stuff I need, without windows. Marvelous.