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Fíona

I have been reading through the grub tutorial by Andrew and am missing something before the fedora installation. We were going to do the installation on a virtual drive, but should we not be setting up a vritual drive first??
At the end of section 1 Andrew writes, "remember that you're working on a virtual hard drive,so if you do make a mistake..."

I have not yet worked with virtual machines etc and was looking forward to doing the double linux boot in a safe virtual environment, but I'm stuck!
If I'm missing something really obvious, no doubt I'll have a quick reaction from the lxf community and can continue with the tutorial.
I hope that I've missed something and not Andrew!

Fíona · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:28 pm Post subject: And the answer was.....

...no reply.

Disappointing!

Dutch_Master · LXF regular Joined: Tue Mar 27, 2007 2:49 am Posts: 2353

LXF 143 is still in the mail for quite a number of people and quite a few others may not have read it entirely yet (me included!)... But the article is not about how to set up a particular virtual machine, it deals with installing Grub...

Now, your problem: which tool do you want to use for your virtual machine(s)? QEMU is the Open Source fav, but as it's cli stuff (most of it anyway) for novices I'd recommend VirtualBox instead. Add the VirtualBox repository to your system then install it with your package manager. IIRC VBox has some sort of tutorial included, so hunt for that. (note: I'm not sure it is, but I think it does)

Fíona · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 4:28 pm Post subject:

Dutch Master, thanks for your reply. You made a good point, there are sometimes big variations in delivery times to suscribers and not everyone may have read that article.

I honestly expected some guidelines in how to set up the virtual machine, from how I interpreted the article.
But I have found some useful help on the site of virtualbox and I'll give that a go.

33333 · Joined: Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:52 am Posts: 2

On that article, obviously you need separate home dirs, but I wondered why you could not just set the UID of the users in both the home dirs to the same value manually, setting say the UID of the first fedora user to 1000.

lok1950 · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:48 pm Post subject:

fedora's UIDs start at 500 not 1000 at least that's the default behavior Wink

Enjoy the Choice Smile

33333 · Joined: Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:52 am Posts: 2

Yeah but you have an option to change it manually even in the GUI. I will have to try it out.