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How-To: Teach Linux To Do Windows, Part 1: Page 6 of 32

Also, Win4Lin comes with unlimited e-mail support. For my support requests during the writing of this Recipe, I generally got a one- to two-day turnaround, including weekends.

Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Start

Before starting to work on your system, make sure you can truthfully answer Yes to all of the following 10 questions:

  1. Are you at least comfortable at the DOS command line? You are probably going to have to do some command-line stuff -- very possibly a lot of it -- to get your setup working. If you aren't, DOS for Dummies is a good place to start with respect to getting comfortable at the command line.