Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Please bear with a newbie w/some questions

It is peculiar to 64-bit AMD machines I think in early releases only. It was
corrected I think after alpha, but by then I had given up and installed to a
HD. Now, I am a bit gun shy of testing Ubuntu in a VM. That is okay because
I have a partition set aside for this, but at the time I was running Fedora
13 on my developmental partition. I thought that I could get away with
testing Ubuntu in the VM, but had no luck. The installation would stall
everytime. I downloaded several images of both Ubuntu and Kubuntu then read
somewhere that it was a known bug.

Roy

On 1 October 2010 13:18, J <dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 07:56, Roy <linuxcanuck@gmail.com<linuxcanuck%40gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> > I could not get Maverick to run in a VM either, so it isn't just Fedora.
>
> That's odd... I just got done doing about 30 different Maverick
> installs in VBox VMs.
> If you're running KVM, that could be the issue. KVM is, IMO crap...
> sadly, it's been, for me, as unstable as Xen was/is.
>
> But in my own experience at least, I've had no issues running Maverick
> or any other Ubuntu in VirtualBox VMs, and that includes both 32 and
> 64bit VMs.
>
>
> > I would add that Wubi is also available from wubi-installer.org. It was
> once
> > a separate project, but has since been rolled into the*buntus. Some other
> > distributions have something similar. Wubi Ubuntu will NOT work inside
> > Windows. It installs inside Windows then you need to re-boot to use it.
> The
> > directory where it is installed is an image that is mounted as if it was
> a
> > partition when you re-boot. The installation continues for a several
> minutes
> > after you re-boot and then it will work as the normal thing with a couple
> of
> > exceptions. Hibernation will not work. It is open to Windows problems
> such
> > as a corrupted file system from viruses and crashes and fragmentation.It
> is
> > cool and unique to Linux and every Ubuntu (and variants) user should try
> it
> > once because it is something that you can recommend to people wanting to
> try
> > without the worry of losing Windows data. It is high on the cool factor,
> > IMO.
>
> Wubi is cool, but it's certainly not a new idea. Red Hat was doing
> that way back in the day, and TBH, it was one of the things that drove
> me insane... it wasn't called Wubi (some other tool, but the effect
> was the same. Installed into a file on the windows filesystem
> (similar to the files used by virtual machines for their filesystems),
> added an option to boot and off you went.
>
> This time around, I could not get a wubi based 32bit Maverick install
> to boot on my WinXP partition (on my Lenovo S-10 netbook) but I did
> get it to work just fine on my Athlon II system running 64bit Windows
> 7.
>
> I agree with yo though, Wubi is a cool way for users to try out Linux
> without refactoring their partition schemes, and risking the loss of
> data that can occur when you start resizing filesystems and
> partitions.
>
> Cheers
> Jeff
>
>

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