>>for me installing Zorin was good enough to run vfp, Office97
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>I went with USB stick and put several Linux Iso on it as well as some Windows installs.
>Great to boot from external for Backup, GPartED or virus search or just to try out something new.
>DL a new version with current speeds is not the problem we had with ISDN and early DSL.
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>>I guess I'll find some old Windoze, perhaps there's a W2k lying around. I still have a few of those on the shelf...
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>I keep a naked XP vm install to clone from, IIRC 10GB size.
>Works great with 1 or 2 cores and even small amounts of RAM
>Benefit are the USB ports you can open - W2K you had to twist some Dlls.

Found the XP but it was bad. Eventually made do with the same W7 I had before, built a new C: for it, installed... and now can't be bothered to install VFP9 afresh, as most of the things already work as is. It's just that when I try to run Thor, it complains of a library not installed when trying to access _vfp.projects[]. Oh, well.
And now to do something about fonts. I've set almost all of the controls to use linux fonts, looked really nice. Aaah. Life is hard.