Re: Tree using wxEuphoria
- Posted by EUWX Mar 27, 2012
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Yes, Windows's boot manager doesn't allow other systems while with GRUB or Lilo (the ones most Linux distro uses) you can choose any OS.
I do play around (and like it) with boot.ini in XP Pro. So I will leave the current Boot options (of Win Pro 32 and Win Pro 64) as is and use Gizmo to give me 3-4 Virtual DVD drives with all the flavours of Ubuntus. Grub might be too grubby for me and my wife may not like to see me dancing with Lilo, because she only knows Windows and has never heard of Linux and Lilo.
4GB is really fine, you could easily give 2GB to the VM. It won't, of course, be as fast as running it from a Virtual RAM CD as I think your processor does not have emulation extensions. The advantage of the VM is that you really have all inside an emulated machine, all the things you do are "contained" there, you can take a snapshot of the VM, make a mess, and rollback to it.
Here are some Kubuntu VM images you can directly download and start using them:
http://virtualboxes.org/images/kubuntu/
Both alternatives should work fine for you.
I have a 1.5TB drive currently as the 2nd hard drive, with three partitions. I am using it for storage of downloads and backups and emails in last 2 partitions, and the first partition has a reasonably current Windows 7 installed, which I rarely use. I will put VirtualBox on this drive and use the Kubuntu there under VM. I can (during initial boot) change drive priorities to boot into Windows 7 and thence to Virtual box and Kubuntu for testing under cirucmstances similar to yours. Even if I mess up there, I don't mind reformatting the Windows 7 partition of the large drive and installing Win 7 again.
My main drive (250GB) has a simultaneous backup into the large drive and selective backup into the cloud. My large drive has a backup in the form of multiple DVDs and also some in the cloud.
I downloaded the several 4.0.3 versions for Linux at Sourceforge and I presume the .deb are the ones for use under Kubuntu.
I am totally new to the Linux world, and if there exist instructions on loading Euphoria etc under Kubuntu, I would like to have that URL before I start.
Thanks for all your responses including Matt Lewis' repsonses.
