[Wylug-discuss] Running Windows with VirtualBox

[Gary Stainburn]

On Friday 03 February 2012 15:25:42 Smylers wrote:
> Good to hear. Any clues as to how?

As I said in my other post, you may be able to do this as part of the Linux 
install.  Otherwise, use a liveCD and run parted. No doubt there are free 
windows programs to do likewise.

>
> > Then install Linux.  It does mean a big chunk of hard drive is doing
> > nothing almost forever but maybe that's OK.
>
> Approximately how big? If in a year or two I'm running out of space and
> decide I don't want Windows, presumably I can reclaim it for Linux?

Try looking at how much data is in the windows partition, and resize it to 
that+a bit to play with, e.g. 20GB.  It's really finger in the air here 
though.


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