<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bart Silverstrim wrote: > Phill MV wrote: >>> Define Safe? I would never manipulate partitions unless I was ready to >>> do a full recovery... The process isn't bugged or error prone, but an >>> inconveniently timed power outage or hardware failure can do much more >>> damage than usual. >> >> Well, let's define safe to be, "barring freak accidents external to the >> software, if you follow the steps in the vast majority of cases it will work >> perfectly" :P. I just have no means to perform recovery, because getting it >> reimaged is a large hurdle. > > Another option I didn't mention was to use the vmware converter tool to > convert your existing computer into a VMWare image. Then you can install > Ubuntu, install VMWare, and run your old computer as the vmware image > rather than Ubuntu. > > If you do that, though, you should rename your Windows computer image so > it doesn't cause network issues...you would need to rename it and, if > you have a static IP set, change that when you test it. XP running an > image of itself in VMWare will probably cause hiccups in your network > connectivity when it goes schizophrenic and for once it isn't Windows' > fault. no need to rename your machine or change fixed IPs unless you are going to keep the other machine around for a while, you are going to run both machines at once, and you are going to use bridged networking on the VM. also, converting to a VM does change your MAC so if there is a DHCP reservation for that PC it might need to be updated to keep things current. - -d -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFILcoAfpRzWFIV0XMRAlrvAKCFEcmUycMtTkSQGCL5i1rWiWRkcgCeJAYk jL3w32y5oZP1OAN3/26z5s8= =gmNj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </body> </html>