Failed attempt to virtually install Win7 inside Kubuntu 10.04 @ my Asus Eee PC 1001HA.

[Rashkae]

On 10-11-09 12:42 PM, Bas Roufs wrote:
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> 2010/11/9 Alan Pope <popey at ubuntu.com <mailto:popey at ubuntu.com>>
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>     On 9 November 2010 14:27, Bas Roufs <basroufs at gmail.com
>     <mailto:basroufs at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Today, I have tried to virtually install Kubuntu 10.04 inside a
>     Kubuntu
>     > 10.04 environment - via "Virtual Box",....
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>     You are not alone with this issue, there's a thread on the VBox forums
>     about it too:-
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>     http://forum.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=25116
>     <http://forum.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=25116>
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>     However the issue is (I believe) because you have a Win7 _recovery_
>     DVD not an _install_ DVD. Recovery CDs/DVDs/images are designed (read:
>     restricted) to be used on a specific hardware device, and not on a
>     different computer.....
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> Thanks for this info, it's clear. Even when using exactly the same 
> laptop with which the "recovery" CD came, a virtual environment inside 
> another OS is a "different computer"... This is apparently one of the 
> ways Micro$oft tries to maintain  it's oligopoly.

Just get your hands on a Windows 7 Install CD for the same version of 
Windows as came with your notebook.  Any computer tech should be able to 
make you a copy.  Use the same install Key as the sticker on your notebook.


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