Re: PostgreSQL setup on dual boot laptop

On Sat, 2002-06-29 at 02:05, Brian Johnson wrote:
>
> Here's my scenario:
> small LAN with a Linux server running with mainly Windows workstations
> (would like to switch workstations to Linux)
>
> Here's the tasks I'd like to do
> 1. convert an existing MS Access database to PostgreSQL and change the Front
> end to HTML based or OpenOffice
> 2. Have offline access to our main database (contacts & project listings)
> when the laptop is disconnected from the LAN (two way replication)
> 3. Allow other laptop users to also have similar setup for offline access
> (two other laptop users)
> 4. Have final system work under both Windows and Linux

This works best for me if I run everything under Linux and run Access in
a vmware session. As a result I removed all dual booting from my laptop
around 2 years ago.

Cheers,
Andrew.
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