Upgrading from a VM to a HD partition possible?

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Tue Apr 20 18:38:40 UTC 2010


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Cybe R. Wizard
<cyber_wizard at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I already have Lucid running on VirtualBox (actually, three instances)
> and would like to upgrade to Lucid on my hard drive but without having
> to DL all of that which has already been DLed.  Is there a way?

> Can it be as easy as putting all the info from the
> VM's /var/cache/apt/archives into the hard drive's same file?

That will work.

Look into apt-cacher if you are doing this often...

Brian




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