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#1 polarpimp

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Posted 17 July 2009 - 07:39 PM

does anyone knw how to make a vitual pc?

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#2 Mousum

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Posted 19 July 2009 - 03:24 PM

What are you using? VMWare or Ms VPC?

#3 polarpimp

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Posted 19 July 2009 - 04:10 PM

Mousum, on Jul 19 2009, 04:24 PM, said:

What are you using? VMWare or Ms VPC?

i dont knw what that is?

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Posted 19 July 2009 - 07:50 PM

This should help you understand what it is

http://searchservervirtualization.techtarg...i213302,00.html

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/

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Posted 20 July 2009 - 10:11 AM

I've tried both Virtual Box in Linux and VMPlayer in Vista & found the Linux system more integrated. I used Mint4Win which is similar to Ubuntu within Windows.
Simple googles will show what I'm ref. to if you're interested or I can post links if you'd prefer?

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Posted 20 July 2009 - 10:13 AM

1002 Richard S, on Jul 20 2009, 10:11 AM, said:

i did sum research and im gona use ubuntu

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Posted 20 July 2009 - 11:07 AM

I went with Wubi for my first try. Really easy and no partioning needed. Full info here
http://wubi-installer.org/

all that takes the time is the download unless you have Ubuntu disc? If you have and you start it in Windows choose the 'run inside Windows' option which is Wubi.

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Posted 20 July 2009 - 02:19 PM

1002 Richard S, on Jul 20 2009, 12:07 PM, said:

i tried the wubi thing and it said that i didnt hav enough RAM, is there any virtual pcs that dont need alot of RAM. I hav a little less than 256

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Posted 21 July 2009 - 01:14 AM

When I had a laptop with less than 256 I couldn't find any - maybe someone else here can help?
You could run Puppy Linux from disc though. It has a clever trick of saving some settings in RAM after you intitially set it up. You then boot it from the bootable cd and once it's running you can remove the disc and carry on with what you are doing. This might be something to try ... no need to install it though.