Re: [Nolug] ISO

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 03:21:21PM -0500, Jerry Wilborn wrote:
> I know you said on the other thread you are working with some old hardware,
> but if your current workstation has enough free RAM, you could use
> VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org) to install a Linux guest OS. Then
> you wouldn't have to worry about media at all, you could just mount the ISO
> within the VBox settings. Obviously this doesn't get you any closer to
> having it running on the separate hardware, but it does provide a safe
> place for you to play with Linux and an easy snapshot mechanism as you
> learn.
>
> Aside, the Intel SSD in my Macbook makes installing guest OSs a thing of
> beauty.

I would recommend the other way around - install Linux, then a VB
image (or more) with Windows.

Brett

>
> Jerry Wilborn
> jerrywilborn@gmail.com
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Mark A. Hershberger <mah@everybody.org>wrote:
>
> > On Thursday, July 12, 2012 4:00:47 PM, B. Estrade wrote:
> > > You need to burn the
> > > ISO as an image itself. Windows and Mac do this natively AFAIK.
> >
> > I was about to tell you "Windows does not do this!" since I'm sitting
> > on Windows right now, but then I found
> > http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/burn-a-cd-on-windows -- which will
> > tell you how to burn any iso on Windows.
> >
> > --
> > What is normal? Normal is yesterday and last week and
> > last month taken together.
> > -- Snuff, Terry Pratchett
> > ___________________
> > Nolug mailing list
> > nolug@nolug.org
> >
___________________
Nolug mailing list
nolug@nolug.org
Received on 07/12/12