Linux InstallFest XXXI - Dual Boot and extra hard drive

[john.abreau-3flU0AWMlV4AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (John Abreau)]

I started pulling down Fedora 10-Preview. Alas, the final release
of Fedora 10 is scheduled for Nov 25, a few days after the Installfest.
If I can find the time this weekend, I'll try setting up a virtualbox
guest with F10-Preview.

If others can do the same for the newest Ubuntu, SuSE, etc., that
would be great.

I've worked with Vmware Workstation before, but not Virtualbox.
What would be a good size to make the guest's virtual disk in
Virtualbox: something like 10 GB? Can it be allocated as needed
rather than all preallocated, like the default for Vmware? Can the
total disk size be easily expanded later?



Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 11/12/2008 02:09 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
>>> 1)
>>> Would it be okay to bring my existing Windows XP Pro Machine and 
>>> have it made into a dual boot machine at the next Install fest?
>>>
>>> 2)
>>> Is it reasonable to expect help with setting up a new 500 gig disk 
>>> as 1/2 linux and 1/2 windows?
>>>
>>> 3)
>>> Could I entice someone to come to my house in Charlestown with Free 
>>> Beer and Food to help me?
>>> I just want to skip RTFM for startup.
>>>     
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> This isn't what you're asking for but I offer it anyway.  Instead of 
>> dual booting why not just have a virtual instance of Linux.  No 
>> rebooting to switch environments among other reasons.  I just used 
>> virtualbox but had winblows as the guest.
>>
>>   
> I've been using virtualbox for a while under Ubuntu and Fedora 9.  
> Last installfest I proposed that, and even had some VDIs. I agree that 
> it may be preferable to use a VM on todays machines.Both Windows and 
> Linux make decent host and guest OSs.
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