<div dir="ltr">Thank you all. Resized partitions and installed 14.04 okay. Grub doesn't show immediately as a boot repair process needs to be done. HP's OS manager gets in the way. Power on with escape key brings up a screen and lets me boot to ubuntu. So far everything seems to work as it should.....</div> <div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 2:22 AM, Bob Jonkman <<a href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com" target="_blank">bjonkman@sobac.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 <div class=""> Cranky wrote: > he won't be able to use his Windows license in the VM. </div>A Windows OEM license (the one that came with the computer) almost certainly is not valid for a Virtual Machine. That's a legal restriction, not a technical one. In fact, there may be language even in the Commercial-Off-The-Shelf license that restricts you from installing it on a VM. And if you have restore media chances are that you won't be able to apply that on a VM either. That's a technical restriction, imposed by MS to enforce their legal restriction. F'rinstance, I tried to install Win7 OEM for my HP ProBook on a VirtualBox VM, and although I could run the setup (over 2 hours of setup!), Win7 wouldn't actually boot in the VM. I did have some luck using the SysInternals command Disk2VHD.exe <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx" target="_blank">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx</a> James Kelsh demonstrated this at a KWLUG meeting some months ago, and I was skeptical when I saw it. I thought that since the install from DVD wouldn't work on my laptop, I'd be doomed to dual-boot forever. But Disk2VHD worked like a charm! Don't know if it works on EFI based partitions, or if it works with Win8, or secure boot. - --Bob. <div><div class="h5"> On 14-05-08 04:47 PM, CrankyOldBugger wrote: > Normally I'd agree, Doug, but if we want Linux to be the primary > (base) OS instead of Windows, and the laptop ships with Windows > installed, and if William wipes the HDD then installs Linux, then > builds a Virtual box Windows 8.1 guest, there is a possibility > that he won't be able to use his Windows license in the VM. I've > heard of cases of this happening. Sorry for the run-on sentence! > > If William a few spare 8.1 licenses lying around (say from before > they closed TechNet) then he should be ok to build a 8.1 VM. > > But if he wants to leave Windows as the host OS, then install > Linux into a VM, that should work fine. But who wants that? lol > > > > > On 8 May 2014 16:40, Doug Penner <<a href="mailto:darwinsurvivor@gmail.com">darwinsurvivor@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > >> VirtualBox with USB passthrough could also be a viable solution. >> On 14-05-08 13:05 CrankyOldBugger wrote: Would Wine work instead >> of dual-boot? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 8 May 2014 15:56, William Frick <<a href="mailto:frickwg@gmail.com">frickwg@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> Haven't riun windows on my machines since 6.04 but a 3dscanner i >> funded is coming with windoze software first, then OSX and linux >> when they get to it..... >> >> >> >> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:07 PM, CrankyOldBugger < >> <a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> Have the UEFI turned on before you start the install. Ubuntu >> notices if it's on or off, then installs accordingly. Windows >> will want it on anyway, so probably best to set both OS to use >> UEFI/Secure Boot. >> >> >> At least, that's been my experience with 13.04. By 13.10 I was >> running Ubuntu by itself, no more Windows. >> >> >> >> >> >> On 8 May 2014 14:47, William Frick <<a href="mailto:frickwg@gmail.com">frickwg@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> Just got my HP Sleekbook and want to dual boot to 14.04...... 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