Short answer? You can’t.
But what you can do is just treat your virtual system as a real system, and do what you’d do to transfer your windows C drive to a new hard disk.
I decided a while back to try out windows XP on a virtual machine on my Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy system. I have a decent processor and a lot of RAM, so why not?
I made the mistake of making a disk that was too small to allow a full XP install and an update to SP3. 4GB just doesn’t cut it.
I looked around online, and there is no native method to resize a virtual hard disk in VirtualBox.
So here’s what I did.
Continue reading ‘How-To: Resize a VirtualBox Hard Disk’
I blogged earlier here about Nautilus scripts to mount and unmount iso files.
Here’s anothery that’s real useful, to give you open the terminal in the current directory shown in the nautilus window.
From the previous post, go to your nautilus scripts folder. Make a new file or just make a copy then edit one that’s there (saves setting permissions!).
Call it term_here or terminal or whatever.
Keep the
#!/bin/bash
at the start, and have just
gnome-terminal
after it.
I assume this will work with your favourite terminal program as well.
Now you can just right-click and pop open a terminal wherever you are in nautilus.
A week ago I took delivery of a shiny new Dell XPS M1530 Laptop. Specs:
Core 2 Duo T9300 2.5Ghz
4Gb RAM
15.4″ Ultrasharp screen
256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
64Gb SSD (Solid State Drive)
Slot load DVD burner
Fingerprint reader
Intel Wireless-N
Bluetooth
SD Card reader
other stuff now considered standard.
It came with Vista Home Premium, which I looked at, considered because it supports the TV card that also came with the system, then decided I don’t watch TV much anyway cos I download stuff, so wiped my 64Gb of solid state-ness and whacked on Ubuntu Hardy 64 Bit.
This will cover what I had to do, and then what I did for the sake of configurating.
Continue reading ‘Ubuntu 8.04 64 Bit on a Dell XPS M1530′
Michael Dell, founder of Dell, funny that, was spotted carrying a “Mini Inspiron” – a new 9 inch model notebook.
Dell spokesperson, Anne Camden said
“Hats off to Brian Lam of Gizmodo as he seems to have caught Michael roaming the halls between sessions and saw he was carrying something our Ideastorm contributors will recognize,”
It’s suggested that it’s based on Intel’s Atom processor.
Given that Dell already has pretty low prices for pretty decent hardware, I can only hope that it will compete directly with the Eee-style notebooks. Given that Dell already sell computers with Ubuntu on them, this would be a perfect way to get it out there.
I’ve been running Ubuntu as my sole OS on my laptop for around 8 months now. I’ve had dual-boots and dabbled in Linux for servers and stuff for around 10 years or so, but this is the first time I’ve had it as the only OS on a system, that I use for day-to-day.
The system is a Dell XPS 1210, less than 12 months old, but granted using some hardware that is itself older than a year, maybe 2.
I had some teething problems at first, managed to fudge a few things to work, but the latest Ubuntu has sorted out the last few niggling things for me.
Here is a list of some reasons why I decided to changeover on a permanent basis for my personal system.
Continue reading ‘10 Reasons Why I Switched To Ubuntu’
Re-use of imagery. I know Ubuntu is open, but I think the logo may have some rights reserved…
I wonder if you can compile the lettuce into a salad, using tomato and cucumber modules maybe.
Source: LuisCosio
Links and articles I’ve found that I think are useful, and pretty much speak for themselves.
