[sf-lug] /the.neighbors.suck

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excellent thanks to ALL!...

my own searches combined with these helpful responses and applying the
K.I.S.S. method as much as possible will hopefully bring 'clean', secure
installs...


'IF' problems and/or kewl tricks/solutions manifest, i will share with the
community...


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On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 7:07 PM, GoOSSBears <acohen36 at linuxwaves.com> wrote:

> > going to be partitoning ubuntu 14.04 lts on
> > some boxes with windows 10 as 'neighbors'.
>
> Are the Windows 10 'neighbors' pre-partitioned+installed
> *first*, as I assume is likely the case?
>
>
> > anyone have any general info that may be helpful
> in this as you have done it and found any issues
> you solved that we can avoid specific to windows 10?
>
> Another alternative that may be helpful here under
> the K.I.S.S. principle[1] (assuming that the Windows 10
> 'neighbors' are installed first and are all the same
> Microsoft Windows 10 RTM build 10240), is to use
> VirtualBox[2].
> You'd first download the latest VirtualBox 5.0.x for
> your Windows hosts[3], currently v5.0.14.
> You'd then visit the VirtualBox 5.0.14 downloads site[4],
> and download (a) the
> Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.0.14-105127.vbox-extpack,
> (b) the the VBoxGuestAdditions_5.0.14.iso as well as
> (c) the necessary Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" guest
> virtualbox-5.0_5.0.14-105127~Ubuntu~trusty_XYZ.deb where
> XYZ = your 'i386' or 'amd64' CPU architecture.
>
> You'd then follow the instructions step-by-step at [5]
> as well as follow along sections 2 and 4 within the VB 5.0.14
> User Manual PDF[6] for further questions or difficulties.
>
> VB might help out as another alternative here...
>
>
> References
> ============
>
> [1]
> http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/KISS-Principle-Keep-It-Simple-Stupid
> [2]https://www.virtualbox.org/
> [3]https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
> [4]http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.14/
> [5]http://www.unixmen.com/install-ubuntu-14-04-3-lts-virtualbox/
> [6]http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.14/UserManual.pdf
>
> -A
>
> --
> Go Open Source Software Bears!
>
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