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Dualbooting, partitions or virtualization?
Hi,
I am trying to have Windows 8 and Fedora 17 in a dual boot setup on my laptop.
At first I installed Windows 8, gave it first 40GBs of the drive to play with ( windows installer cut off first ...
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VirtualBox: using physical partition as virtual drive
Background: I am using VirtualBox installed on Windows 7. From within VirtualBox I am using Xubuntu as a virtual OS. The reason I chose this approach is so that I don't have to keep turning off ...
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Starting one OS from another (virtualization?) - Linux
I need to do the following, and I'm not sure which tools I shuold use. I need to have 2 partitions on one PC; each partition contains a Linux Distro (any) in dual boot. Then, whenever I select to run ...
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Why would VMware Player Not Boot When Using Partitions?
I'm trying to run a virtualized Ubuntu environment on a physical partition on top of Windows 7, using VMware Player's physical partitions feature, which creates a .vmdk file that points to a physical ...
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RAID and Partitions, guidance Needed
Alright
I have a Biostar TA790GX3A2+ Mobo
2x Seagate 750Gb Hard drive (with 2 different speeds)
an X4 9750
A GeForce 9800GT
and 2GB RAM
Hardware Specs link text
I want ...
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How can I access a Linux partition from Windows?
I'd like to be able to access my Linux /home partition from within Windows on a dual-boot machine. Since the partition is formatted for XFS, I can't use explore2fs.
What other ways might I be able ...
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How should i setup my PC partition?
I want to clear out my PC and setup the partitions.
Right now i have it as XP, Win-7, Vista, XP/Test/Spare
I notice my PC is pretty good at virtualization, at least virtualizing linux. I also rarely ...
