OT booting Linux from within XP ?

[john levin]

dave s wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I know this is OT but work has just allocated me a very locked down Laptop. I 
> cannot boot from a CD (Thinking knoppix) I am not sure I want to go down the 
> cygwin route. I read somewhere you can boot linux from a file within 
> windows ?
> 
> Am I loosing the plot or is there a way ?
> 
> Cheers
> Dave
> 

You want a virtual machine; vmware provide a free (as in beer, not 
freedom) player
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
They also do a prebuilt browser environment, based on Ubuntu Hoary 5.04.

HTH

John