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Ardesco replied

4 February 2010, 16:23
Originally posted by FiveTimes View Post

wouldn't it have been easier to install VMWare on Ubuntu and run Windows as a virtual machine ?

Originally posted by administrator View Post

FTFY

http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

It's free and also I did not have to burn off the ISO - installed straight from it.

FTFY
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TheFaQQer replied

4 February 2010, 13:20
Originally posted by administrator View Post

No way! Did not know they were giving that away these days. Thanks, will give it a go next time

I'd stick with VMWare if that's what you've been doing - I considered converting my VMWare to KVM on Ubuntu because there isn't a 64bit version of server that is supported on Karmic. Gave up in the end and just went with player instead.

My Ubuntu install is currently running a VM that runs Oracle Linux
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VectraMan replied

4 February 2010, 10:29
Originally posted by administrator View Post

No way! Did not know they were giving that away these days. Thanks, will give it a go next time

VirtualBox is also free and much better than VirtualPC.

I have Kubuntu and Ubuntu Virtual machines. Now if I could only think of a reason to use them.
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administrator replied

4 February 2010, 10:18
Originally posted by FiveTimes View Post

As is virtual PC 2007 - I just downloaded the ISO, placed it on a shared drive and bingo done.

No way! Did not know they were giving that away these days. Thanks, will give it a go next time
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gingerjedi replied

4 February 2010, 10:18
I've got VMware player on my PC but it runs like a dog (P4 2.0Ghz 768mb RAM)... there was no way I was going to use it on my laptop, (Centrino 1.8 with 512Mb RAM).

I need newer kit, but I need a contract first.
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FiveTimes replied

4 February 2010, 10:01
Originally posted by administrator View Post

FTFY

http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

It's free and also I did not have to burn off the ISO - installed straight from it.

As is virtual PC 2007 - I just downloaded the ISO, placed it on a shared drive and bingo done.
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darmstadt replied

4 February 2010, 09:57
I tried Ubuntu and Kubuntu on a T60p and had a number of problems. Running Debian (lenny) was no problem apart from the wireless but Mint was particularly good although KMint was crap. I like KDE but the newer versions cause me no end of problems and I find it is particularly slow unless you have a good graphics card. I tend to try out all the different distributions under VMWare first to see what they're like before going for a full install on a system.
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administrator replied

4 February 2010, 09:28
Originally posted by FiveTimes View Post

wouldn't it have been easier to install VMWare Player and run Ubuntu as a virtual machine ?

FTFY

http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

It's free and also I did not have to burn off the ISO - installed straight from it.
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FiveTimes replied

4 February 2010, 09:00
wouldn't it have been easier to install Microsoft Virtual PC and run Ubuntu as a virtual machine ?
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gingerjedi replied

3 February 2010, 23:07
I've now installed it from a Windows prompt rather than a straight dual boot, working a treat.

Installing on a partition from cold caused all sorts of issues, chkdsk kept running every time I booted to XP and I didn't like the fact it hijacked the MBR.

Liking it now.
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portseven replied

3 February 2010, 22:04
currently running kubuntu netbook remix on me netbook, working sweet as a nut!
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DiscoStu replied

3 February 2010, 19:44
I have Ubuntu Netbook Remix on my netbook, funnily enough. I think it's great
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Fred Bloggs replied

3 February 2010, 16:57
Originally posted by administrator View Post

http://ubuntuforums.org/

1,278,435 Threads - all of them saying RTFM of course
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Cliphead replied

3 February 2010, 16:06
Originally posted by Tarquin Farquhar View Post

And eventually come to the conclusion that if you can't fix this yourself, you don't deserve to have a computer.

Been thinking this since 1981
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administrator replied

3 February 2010, 14:56
Originally posted by Fred Bloggs View Post

IME, the Linux geeks get all stroppy and tell newby types to RTFM when you're really stuck and have already RTFM a million times and are still stuck.

http://ubuntuforums.org/

1,278,435 Threads - all of them saying RTFM of course
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