You are using virtual-box on W7. so when the Debian installation asks you to write the boot sector, it refers to the virtual hardware which is currently running on, which of course is not the Real Machine that runs W7. the virtualization provide virtual hardware to the OS (Debian) which believes it runs on a normal machine. there are no risks for your real primary disk as far as it can't be reached nor written by Debian in any case. so to that question simply answer "yes". it will install grub just on the virtual machine, not on the Real.
If i can, I would suggest you to install Ubuntu, is a debian-based distro and is more user-friendly than debian itself. Cheers Marco Pinna Il giorno 03/set/2011, alle ore 19.06, Michael Gezaee Kahssay ha scritto: > > I needed to have a guest operating debian or any unix or linux with > graphic utilities. I picked debian and started installing it using virtual > box but I got stuck because it asks me it wants to load grub to my primary > hard drive and it does not also detect my operating system and I think it > wants to write over my host? or it says if there is another os, it may not > boot. I feared it may kick out my host os and aborted the debian > installation. Is there any easy way of integrating debian as a guest on > window 7 host without affecting my host? please help me. I needed the debian > or other linux or unix variant for hardware design. > > with regards > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > Help-grub mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
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