[ubuntu-za] Updating to Intrepid

[Tim Johnson]

Bill,

Your XP "C:\ Drive" is in /.VirtualBox with a .vdi extension.  Size alone  
should be a good clue.

I have successfully upgraded to II and just copying that across to my home  
folderrestored my Virtual XP intact... no problem.
Just beware of sharing your whole home directory if you are connecting  
while in XP.  The normal Windows vulnerabilities apply to the Virtual  
machine viz. viruses, adware etc.

Cheers,

Tim Johnson

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:50:41 +0200, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> 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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