For ultra-simple try-before-you-buy, without partitioning, extra drives or VMs, there's always Wubi: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide</a><br><br>Jas.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Cameron Royal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cameron@sandboxsoftware.net">cameron@sandboxsoftware.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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.<div><br></div><div>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.<div>
<br></div><div>Or a VM - I second VirtualBox being reasonable for the price (free).</div><div>-</div><div>Cam</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Will Dowling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:will@autodeist.com" target="_blank">will@autodeist.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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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?<br>
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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.<br>
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So run the bootcamp app then you should be able to reboot, hit alt on boot and select your linux cd to install from.<br>
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Hope this (makes sense and) helps.<br>
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