[cad-linux] AutoCAD LT 2002 Success

I am running Mandrake 8.0.

VMWare Workstation 3.0 ($299) installed smoothly as any Windows-based 
install. Double-click the rpm, and have Coke. No dependencies or command-line 
torture required. Installs like a toaster - plug it in, throw out the manual 
and the cardboard box while waiting, and go.

Next, installed an OLD but never-used Windows 98 SE as the 'guest OS' within 
VMWare. With Win98 running, one can then install VMWare Tools (which helps 
speed up graphics.)

And next, go to www.98lite.net and download 98lite and the IEradicator. These 
turn the supposedly necessary, "bundled" IE and other web-based 
marketing/monitoring/adspam-portals into OPTIONS which you can then go in and 
REMOVE using Control Panel's Add/remove Software tool. 

So you clean house and the OS runs MUCH faster. If you have Win98 running on 
other platforms you might try this there as well - especially for streaming 
video, audio, and other RAM-hammering games. VMWare 'grants' 64Meg RAM to its 
'guest' OS, and although AutoCAD supposedly requires 128Meg, it runs fine 
once you 98lite sweeps through town.

Beware, there is another company at www.98lite.COM which is running a SCAM in 
which they collect MONEY, and then point you to the FREE site (.net)

With the guest OS so prepared, I installed AutoCAD LT 2002 (Student Price: 
$329) in 15 min, and it seems to run fine.

(OK, so now I have to register it...)

GLL

PS I have already successfully run Student Edition Pro/E i2000 in Linux on 
VMWare Workstation 3.0

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