[PIGMI] Php, MySQL, JavaScript with Linux

Andy Hawkins andyhawkins at ozemail.com.au
Mon Dec 13 21:26:50 PST 2010


Wow!  Awesome response!  Thanks guys and gals.  I have plenty to go with 
now :)

Andy H.
> For ultra-simple try-before-you-buy, without partitioning, extra 
> drives or VMs, there's always Wubi: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide
>
> Jas.
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Cameron Royal 
> <cameron at sandboxsoftware.net <mailto:cameron at sandboxsoftware.net>> wrote:
>
>     I tried going down the multiple OS on the same drive with
>     partitions road once. It just isn't worth the time or effort,
>     especially when it comes time to reinstall.
>
>     Hard disks are so cheap these days, buy a new one, install onto a
>     fresh drive and let the OS do whatever it wants to the partition
>     table.
>
>     Or a VM - I second VirtualBox being reasonable for the price (free).
>     -
>     Cam
>
>
>     On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Will Dowling <will at autodeist.com
>     <mailto:will at autodeist.com>> wrote:
>
>             I'm going through an OReilly book and at some stage I need
>             to set up a Linux box.  I have 2 PC's and a Mac.  Is it
>             possibly to make one Linux without nuking the existing OS
>             on one of the machines?
>
>
>         The bootcamp tool under OSX will convert your partition table
>         to MBR format, resize your existing HFS+ partition to make way
>         for a DOS/Windows partition and set the startup disk to
>         CD/Windows.
>
>         So run the bootcamp app then you should be able to reboot, hit
>         alt on boot and select your linux cd to install from.
>
>         Hope this (makes sense and) helps.
>
>
>         Will Dowling
>
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>         F: +61 (08) 6364 4881
>         E: will at autodeist.com <mailto:will at autodeist.com>
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