[ubuntu-za] Updating to Intrepid

Bill Cairns cairnsww at gmail.com
Mon Oct 27 19:07:29 GMT 2008


Well thanks guys - it all seems too good to be true. I will give it a go.

Bill

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Tim Johnson <tim at pteq.net> wrote:

> James.. your process is spot on.  Tgere is a new VBox version available
> and yes, just select the same .vdi as your hard drive in the setup
> process.  Works 100%
>
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:15:25 +0200, James Cuénod <j3frea at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks James - there is indeed a .VirtualBox folder which has a VDI
> >> folder
> >> which seems to contain XP. As you say, there are a number of other
> >> folders
> >> around:
> >>
> >> .VirtualBox/VDI/VirtualBox.vdi.renamed (which I suspect is one of mine
> >> that
> >> I have forgotten!
> >> .VirtualBox/Machines which seems to have info wrt the Windows virtual
> >> machine
> >>
> >> and then what looks like some more configuration files.
> >>
> >> So - if I create a new home folder with all that good stuff in it and
> >> have
> >> upgraded the Ubuntu stuff, would it be enough to just re-install
> >> VirtualBox?
> >> Or am I being over-simplistic?
> >
> >
> > Yip, I reckon that'll work (as long as the version of virtual box is the
> > same - perhaps an upgrade would be a good idea before you upgrade
> > distros...
> > Someone else should comment on this though...)
> > You just chuck the stuff in .VirtualBox into the new .VirtualBox folder
> > and
> > it should all work. Also, as far as I can remember, when you create a new
> > virtual machine you can select the drive to use - you can just select the
> > .vdi that you want and it'll all work (or at least, one hopes - maybe the
> > evil of windows has leaked through :D)
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 6:07 PM, James Cuénod <j3frea at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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
> >>>> Ergo | P O Box 19801 | Tecoma 5214 | South Africa
> >>>> Ph +2782 6014353 | Fax: 0866563858
> >>>> vijay at ergo dot co dot za
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 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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