Thank you all for your response. As embarrassing as this will be, and as much as I hesitate to do so, I'm going to try to spit it all out (I really hate this). I don't know if I can sum-up my situation here:
I put Fedora 9 on a Windows box. Then I decided to put Ubuntu Hardy and "forgot" to skip the GRUB installation and got hosed out of Fedora. I brilliantly installed another Ubuntu thinking it would give me a fresh boot loader. Major wrong! I tried to edit menu.lst, but must have left out a step or two. It didn't work. Oh, almost forgot. I upgraded the first Ubuntu Hardy online to Intrepid and never seen the GUI boot up. I have screen shots of what it looks like. I can recall black and white lines. I also remember part of the screen, say, the top half, is the lines and the bottom half is the default Ubuntu desktop. Sooooo, anyways, I installed VirtualBox 2.1.0 in Windows. So now I choose Windows from GRUB menu then boot Ubuntu from VirtualBox... aaaaarrrggg!!!! If I were a horse, I would be shot. On Dec 24 2008, 10:26 am, Rob Huffstedtler <[email protected]> wrote: > My subjective experience of virtualbox is that the performance (with > windows as the host OS) is not as good as vmware or virtualpc. I've > not tried it with Linux as the host. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 23, 2008, at 7:26 PM, t35t0r <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> Though off topic from Alex's post, you should look at virtualization > >> (under Windows I assume for you) as a great way to get at learning > >> linux! > > >>http://www.vmware.com/freedownload/login.php?product=server20 > > > I highly recommend virtualboxhttp://www.virtualbox.org. It's like > > VMWare workstation but free (run windows in linux)! If you use it > > under linux with freenx-server you can login to your VM console from > > any system that has an NX client. I haven't tried 2.1 yet but > > supposedly it has bridging working properly so that you can put your > > VM on the WAN or talk to your VM within the VM NAT (other than just by > > using the shared folder feature which worked before 2.1). > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
