> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 8:00 AM, das <[email protected]> wrote: >> Earlier, I installed more than one Linux on the HD just for getting >> some suggestion when someone is in problem. Gradually, due to the UUID >> and all this is becoming problemsome. One brute way out is to rewrite >> 'fstab' with device-names in place of UUID-s. But people say these >> days a lot of applications read the UUID-s, so this may get >> problemsome.
Yes. Really a pain! One of the fsck will fail and you have to exit maintainer mode by pressing 'Ctrl + D' manually to continue the boot process. >> So, after some friends suggested, I now want to go into >> virtualization. And I know nothing. I have a really huge amount of HD >> space, and 4GB memory. And my CPU has the virtualization flags. I am >> myself using Fedora 11 Beta and I want to have virtual installations >> of Ubuntu and OpenSuse on my system. Nice! If your CPU has virtualisation flags I strongly recommend KVM/Qemu. I have been using it for quite sometime for Windows related tasks and also trying out "bleeding edge" distros. Some nice Howto Links below: (some are Ubuntu links) [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Installation [2] http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Installing_and_Configuring_Fedora_KVM_Virtualization [3] bonzoli.com/docs/How_to_setup_Qemu_on_Fedora_8.pdf [4] http://wiki.frugalware.org/index.php?title=QEMU_Quickstart All you need to look into is the following Step 1 : Install KVM/Qemu Step 2 : Create a blan Qemu image using qemu-img command Step 3 : Boot the Ubuntu Live CD using qemu/kvm , mentioning the hard disk to be the image file we created in Step 2 (there is a switch to mention that. its -c) . Make sure you boot from cdrom (i.e. -boot flag is set to d) (man qemu has detailed descriptions) Step 4 : Install :-) and enjoy HTH Aanjhan _______________________________________________ Fedora-india mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
