[conspire] VirtualBox

[Leo P]

As the holder of a windows 8 license, you are entitled to a free upgrade to
windows 10 which seems much better than windows 8 once the spyware aspects
are turned off with SpyBot Anti-Beacon:
https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/

My suggestion would be to download the official windows 10 ISO from
microsoft at: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10
I would NOT do an upgrade but would record and store my windows 8 license
number as it will be automatically converted to a windows 10 license once
you apply it to the fresh install of windows 10 that I suggest you do from
the ISO you downloaded.
I would then decide how much of the disk space I wanted to use for windows
and how much for linux and repartition and format the hard drive using
gparted running from a usb key or cdrom.  Then I would install windows 10
into the partition I created for it, update it, and then install linux.
When you install linux it will also install grub and allow you to choose
which OS to boot: windows 10 or linux.

That is how I do it.  Others, I'm sure, will have different opinions.  No
need to have the overhead of visualization unless/until it's needed.

Leo

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Carl Myers <cmyers at cmyers.org> wrote:

> Virtualbox is available for Linux.  If your usage is primarily Linux, you
> probably want to install Linux, then Virtualbox, then windows as a guest.
>
> I am not certain, but I thought there was some rule that you must be
> provided
> windows installation media "upon request" or something?  Maybe investigate
> that
> avenue.  Failing that, there are other ways to obtain windows (which vary
> in
> degrees of cost / annoyingness / legality).
>
> -Carl
>
> On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 04:47:51PM +0000, Paul Zander wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 16:47:51 +0000 (UTC)
> > From: Paul Zander <paulz at ieee.org>
> > To: Conspire List <conspire at linuxmafia.com>
> > Subject: [conspire] VirtualBox
> >
> > So I have a laptop that was factory installed with Win 8.1.  No install
> media came with it.
> >
> > After I get Linux installed, I anticipate that my usage will be 90%
> Linux and 10% Windows.  I have never used VirtualBox, but several people
> say it is the way to go. I am inclined to give it a try since dual-boot
> does not happen as part of installing Debian or Mint on this machine.
> >
> > After reading the documentation, it appears that what I need to do is:
> > * Install VirtualBox on Windows.
> > * Create a new partition for the guest OS.
> > * Possibly create another partition for shared data
> >
> > * Launch VirtualBox
> >
> > * From inside VirtualBox install Linux as a virtual machine into the new
> partition.
> >
> >
> > After everything is configured, I will always be running Windows and be
> subject to the annoying unscheduled downtime when Microsoft decides to
> install an update.
> >
> > Is this the only practical option?
> >
> >
> > Perhaps I should bring all of the pieces to the next CABAL and do the
> install there...
> >
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