[ubuntu-za] Updating to Intrepid

[James Cuénod]

Your vitualbox "drive" is probably in your home folder in ~/.VirtualBox
Just check, it'll be a ".vdi" file  - I'm pretty sure that securing vdi file
will save your virtual machine (although there seem to be some associated
xml files as well).

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Vijay Makanjee <vijay at ergo.co.za> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I found that this was a good way to do this.
>
> http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome
>
> useful site.
>
> Not sure about the other thing
>
> Vijay
>
> Vijay Makanjee
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>
>
> Bill Cairns wrote:
> > This is slightly off topic to the other thread so I decided to start a
> > new one.
> >
> > Last time I did a completely new install - the time before I did an
> > upgrade. Both worked well and I wouldn't mind going either way except
> > that I now hove so much other stuff installed that I would have to do
> > all over again.
> >
> > But my question involves partitioning the drives: I have read on this
> > and other forums (fora?) that the smart thing to do is to have one's
> > home directory on a separate partition to remove the necessity of saving
> > and reloading it every time. Is there a way of moving the home directory
> > to a separate partition 'on the run' so to speak? Could someone point me
> > to a good tutorial on-line?
> >
> > I am running VirtualBox under Ubuntu and XP as a virtual machine there.
> > I share my whole home directory with XP as a shared folder - works well.
> > But I am not quite sure where that windows stuff is. Is it hiding in my
> > home folder somewhere? How could I set it up to allow me to upgrade
> > Ubuntu without having to re-install Windows. (I don't want to have to go
> > through that again!)
> >
> > Any other suggestions about good ways to do installs to make updates
> > even easier?
> >
> > (I would qute happily stick with Hardy on my main machine except that
> > Intrepid definitely does fix the sound problems that I have had here).
> >
> > Bill
> >
>
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