You might also end up having a low life length on your pen drive. Solid state drives only have a certain number of writes until they quit working. It's normally a huge number, so not normally something to worry about, but running a VM off it may dramatically increase the usage on it. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Robert Ladyman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:it@file-away.co.uk">it@file-away.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
There are some hints and tips on dual-booting with Vista:-<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT2094892904.html" target="_blank">http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT2094892904.html</a><br>
<br>
You could also bring the machine along on Thursday and collar a techie to do<br>
it for you.<br>
<br>
RJL<br>
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On Saturday 21 February 2009 10:30:16 SEEBERG, SABINE wrote:<br>
> Hi folks,<br>
><br>
> I even could not install Linux on my notebook until now.<br>
> Using Windows Vista it seems to be not possible to use Linux at the same<br>
> time. One of the Chris offered me his help, but he seems to be to often too<br>
> stoned to manage it. ;O) I always wonder how people in this tough world can<br>
> manage without having a really clear and sharp awareness and mind. As i<br>
> always like to help myself as much as possible, I decided to get an<br>
> external memory - I assume a 2 GIG memory will do - and save the virtual<br>
> machine and the linux program on it and work with it from there. Assume it<br>
> will be a bit slow, but I don't have an other solution right now.<br>
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