On Mar 14, 5:28 pm, Jim Richardson <warl...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 14 Mar 2007 15:04:02 -0700,
> Tom Shelton <tom_shel...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Mar 9, 7:43 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Friendly fire mixup: MS identifies Windows as Mac
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> >> Ubuntu on Virtual PC 2007 - No way dude!
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> >> | A number of people have asked me whether it's possible to install
> >> | Linux onto a Virtual PC 2007 virtual machine. Well, since I had
> >> | an Ubuntu ISO on my desktop I decided to give it a go.
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> >> | The short answer is no. It won't. I thought that it might but
> >> | my optimism was short-lived. The graphics are all messed up.
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> > In this case, I'm more inclined to believe that the problem is in
> > Ubuntu. The reason? Gentoo, Knoppix (installed and from the cd), and
> > Fedora all work fine. Ubuntu has never worked for me under VPC. It
> > didn't work with the previous version of Virtual PC either.
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> I have no problems running Ubuntu inside a VMWare instance :)
I don't either. But, I don't have problems runngin other Linux's
under Virtual PC either. Of course, I don't use it much anymore - it
doesn't support usb and vmware does.
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Tom Shelton
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