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Re: Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited

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On Fri, 04 Nov 2016 04:57:55 +0000, Bit Twister wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 01:29:29 -0000 (UTC), Jim Beard wrote:

> You need to use the KISS methodology. Use the downloaded iso. There is
> no good reason to add in another layer of possible failure.

> One more time. Forget about a usb drive VirtualBox guest install.
> Just select the downloaded iso.
> 
> Please at least glance through
>   https://itsfoss.com/install-windows-10-virtualbox-linux/
> before trying the w10 install.

An excellent set of instructions.

> If you pick the virtualbox rpm it will drag the required kernels and
> whatnot to create your first guest.
> 
> Do yourself a favor, install virtualbox rpm. Reboot, create your new
> guest and pick your mageia5 iso and play around. Once that works, you
> can download/install the extension pack, reboot, verify you know how to
> enable the usb drive in the guest and see what happens when you jack in
> the device.
> 
> At this point, you would know everything does work, and any problems
> from this point forward will be self-induced, or quirks with the new
> guest OS.
> 
> 
> 
>> Where should I put the new virtual Win10? I am inclined to put it in
>> the ext4 partition I intend to use for Mageia 6 for the moment, and
>> then move it elsewhere if it works.  I understand this is possible. 
>> Correct?
> 
> Yes, but why screw around shuffling stuff around. Sit down, draw
> pictures if needed, plan your disk usage, build desired partitions then
> proceed.
w
> A standard Mageia VB install will have you creating your Virtual guest
> machines in your login account.
> 
> Not a good default as far as being able to backup $HOME.
> 
> I created a separate partition for all VM guest storage and pointed
> $HOME/.VirtualBox at the storage partition.
> 
> $ ls -al $HOME/.VirtualBox lrwxrwxrwx 1 bittwister bittwister 11 Jul 31
> 18:12 /home/bittwister/.VirtualBox -> /vmguest
> 
> $ df -h /vmguest Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda9       357G  251G  102G  72% /vmguest
> 
> $ ls CentOS_6.5_64     md2010_2             mga5_64 .....         

The above saved and printed out.  Now to decide when to take the plunge.

Cheers!

jim

-- 
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Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net> - 2016-11-04 01:29 +0000
  Re: Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-11-03 19:51 -0700
    Re: Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited dlbendigo  <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> - 2016-11-04 16:07 +1100
      Re: Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net> - 2016-11-04 15:21 +0000
    Re: Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net> - 2016-11-04 14:11 +0000
      Re: Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-11-04 07:28 -0700
  Re: Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-11-04 04:57 +0000
    Re: Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net> - 2016-11-04 15:45 +0000
  Re: Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net> - 2016-11-05 18:46 +0000
    Re: Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-11-05 20:25 +0000

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