New hard drive and memory turned up at nearly 5pm. Managed to install both (and remove all the dust from the inside of the case) without too much trouble and was amazed to find they instantly worked
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When creating a VM, the physical place where the data resides must be readable by the host OS. The VM image is just a flat file with some metadata - you could ostensibly have it running on a USB stick if you wanted.
Just to clarify, are you ultimately aiming to install linux into a VM, or as a dual boot?
>you could ostensibly have it running on a USB stick if you wanted
Not with VirtualBox - it doesn't give you the option of specifying which Windows drive letter you want to put the VM image on. It doesn't just have to be readable by the OS, it has to be on the same disk the OS is installed on, ie C:
>are you ultimately aiming to install linux into a VM, or as a dual boot? I definitely want the VM option, not dual boot. Having to switch off Windows every time I want to use Linux (and vice versa) would be extremely limiting.
Also, if it's a VM you're installing, I can't see why you're worried about partitioning / MBA! It's installing into the VM image, not your actual hard drive partition table. /dev/sda refers to the first SATA disk, which will be the main disk image presented to the guest OS.
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Just to clarify, are you ultimately aiming to install linux into a VM, or as a dual boot?
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Not with VirtualBox - it doesn't give you the option of specifying which Windows drive letter you want to put the VM image on. It doesn't just have to be readable by the OS, it has to be on the same disk the OS is installed on, ie C:
>are you ultimately aiming to install linux into a VM, or as a dual boot?
I definitely want the VM option, not dual boot. Having to switch off Windows every time I want to use Linux (and vice versa) would be extremely limiting.
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Also, if it's a VM you're installing, I can't see why you're worried about partitioning / MBA! It's installing into the VM image, not your actual hard drive partition table. /dev/sda refers to the first SATA disk, which will be the main disk image presented to the guest OS.
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