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Originally Posted by taurusx5
{BBI}Nexus{BBI}, the links that you provided, are these for ubuntu 7.10?
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Fedora 7 and Innotek VirtualBox
Although I use various flavours of Fedora my main distribution is Fedora 7. A distribution which gives me no problems after I installed ndiswrapper in order to go wireless. Something I can't say about Fedora 8.
Anyway I happened to have quite a bit of free space on my partition with Fedora 7 so I got the idea of installing VirtualBox. Why VirtualBox you would think while Fedora has this feature build in. Well the fact is that I could not get it running the way I wanted it to run.
Anyway, after installing same I wanted to install Windows XP, but the program kept moaning that there was no bootable cdrom. So I decided to try Ubuntu 7.10 which happened to be available on my disc as an ISO image. Much to my surprise I could install this distribution without any problem straight from an image. But I still wanted to install Windows XP as well so I decided to make an image of XP. I'm writing this as some of you might be interested how I went about it.
In order to be in control from the beginning I mounted the cdrom with XP manually. Then in a terminal I gave the command:
df /mnt/cdrom.
The result of this command gave the following information:
1K-blocks used is 576364.
This number displays the size of the file, but
576364 needs to be divided by
2 in order to get the right number needed by
count=. After dividing by 2 we get the number
288182.
So far so good and now we are ready to give the following command:
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=WindowsXP.iso bs=2048 count=288182.
After a while we have the file
WindowsXP.iso ready and waiting to be installed in our VirtualBox.
Bear in mind that /dev/cdrom works for me, but this may be different for you. Also you may give the image any name you wish.
The result is that I have a fully working WindowsXP in VirtualBox. The already installed Ubunti and also WindowsXP made automatic contact with Fedora 7's wireless connection. Also activation of WindowsXP via this gateway was no problem.