Maverick Meerkat

[Eric]

Bob, you  may be interested in a different way then:

In my case, I had an extra laptop drive that wasn't being put to good
use.  Downloaded the 32bit beta iso, burned it to a cd (new computer
with new dvd drives, but i was using Brasero), booted off the cd, then
got it to install the beta(and grub)to the external drive.  The catch
is that it only installed modules for this particular set of hardware,
but it otherwise works fine.

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:
> On 10-10-13 10:51 AM, Doooh Head wrote:
>>   Am considering seeing if I can get Vista to run in a VM.  I have a license for it on this machine and only retain it just because I paid for it when I bought the machine.  Anyone out there done such a thing?
>>
>> DooohHead
>
>
> I've been intending to do that ever since I got this computer (Toshiba
> laptop).  Ideally I'd like to have Vista installed in a bootable
> partition that I can also run in a VM under Ubuntu.  But for now I'll
> settle for running it in VirualBox.
>
> FWIW, I haven't upgraded to Malevolent Meekrat yet.  There wasn't enough
> room on the / partition for an upgrade, and when I ran gparted from the
> live 10.10 CD (on a USB key) it crashed when it was resizing the
> partition.  Spent most of yesterday wrestling with grub. I didn't have a
> 10.04 CD handy, so I ended up installing 9.04 in a spare partition so I
> could run a stable gparted, but installing 9.04 fixed grub so I've been
> back using 10.04.  Will try resizing the / partition before bed, and let
> it run overnight.  Maybe install 10.10 tomorrow.
>
> --Bob.
>
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