emdiesse Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Hello. I am struggling to set up ubuntu mainly because i can't use the internet with it yet, switching between windows and ubuntu is prooving to be a pain. Can I run ubuntu within windows and make the changes there so when i reboot and use ubuntu all the changes i made within it stay. I guess kind of like running it as a virtual machine, but not actually running it as a virtual machine but off of the actual linux partition of my hard drive. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gary7 Subscriber² Posted September 20, 2008 Subscriber² Share Posted September 20, 2008 You should have a dedicate partition for Windows and a separate partition for Linux. It is called dual booting. I have never had a problem doing this. To switch between the two, you need to log off of one and into the other, or reboot. Anything that you do within Linux should remain in place after a reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emdiesse Posted September 20, 2008 Author Share Posted September 20, 2008 You should have a dedicate partition for Windows and a separate partition for Linux. It is called dual booting. I have never had a problem doing this. To switch between the two, you need to log off of one and into the other, or reboot. Anything that you do within Linux should remain in place after a reboot. Yeah, i have that. However I want to be even lazier and not have to keep switching. I am wondering if I can run ubuntu within a window in windows and finish setting it up there. I have an external harddrive using FAT32 so I can swap files from windows to linux there :D. Otherwise I guess that will be my only option :(. cheers for the reply :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViZioN Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Can you not run Ubuntu in a virtual machine? That way you can run it in a window within Windows. I was trying to do something similar so I could run Linux under Vista, but VirtualBox won't install for some reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 VMware workstation can run your native Ubuntu install in it. Just use your real disk as virtual disk, it will boot and internet will work in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YaZoR Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 VMware workstation can run your native Ubuntu install in it. Just use your real disk as virtual disk, it will boot and internet will work in it. Beware, this isn't guaranteed to work. As VMware emulates hardware that is probably different to your actual setup, you may get issues upon booting inside a VM. Also if changes are made to hardware drivers/config, you may not be able to boot natively due to the changes and differing (real) hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 Linux is not windows. It is not locked to 1 hardware configuration. It will adapt. Only X (the graphical interface) will fail to start, but an automatic rescue things will popop and let you use the vmware driver or vesa (no accell but work everywhere) driver. When the real install will work fine, just returning to nvidia ou fglrx (ati) 3D driver will be needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs_Angel_D Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 You might wanna check out this tutorial on Using Virtualbox to run Ubuntu It was how I first discovered and fell in love with Ubuntu/Linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 But it is slow and work bad, vmware is not open source or free, but it is good and allow you to play with real install, not just fake disk images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knife Party Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 try this, its linux emulation freeware and simple to use -> http://mobalivecd.mobatek.net/en/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 That's an emulator, it is far worst than virtualisation, it will just be -too- slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted September 28, 2008 Veteran Share Posted September 28, 2008 That's an emulator, it is far worst than virtualisation, it will just be -too- slow. :rofl: Virtualization is emulation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 emulation emulate every single assembly/binary call in a virtual CPU. Virtualisation use your real hardware when possible, only dangerous CPU call like frequency change are emulated or rejected. Some hardware like cdrom drive, ethernet adapter and video card are emulated, but not the memory access or CPU request/interuptions. It is why virtualisation is around 90% of native speed for prosessing operation and emulation is less than 10%. That said, emulation have few advantages, like being able to run assembly designed for other architectures, like SPARC, ARM or PPC, otherwise, emulation is just deprecated these day, nobody use that anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted September 29, 2008 Veteran Share Posted September 29, 2008 Oh, you are talking only about CPU emulation. Because virtualization is all about emulating hardware and all that jazz :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs_Angel_D Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 Nevermind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aleck79 Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 blah you edited you post... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circaflex Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 I guess you could give this a try? http://hehe2.net/thedarkside/microsoft/run...ssly-on-ubuntu/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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