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I am indeed a virualisation kind of guy. But I have some plans to go to the next stage and try going completely virtual, and run Hyper-V server. It seemed to me that the safest option was the caddy and separate drive route, that way I can always boot up into a working OS whatever I mess up :)
I;m back again. I have installed an external HD and dragged a ububtu ISO file into it. I start up and boot up on the extra HD and click but nothing happens, doesn't continue booting. What am I doing wrong ? Should I install the ububtu direct into the extra HD and if so how do I do that. Thanks foe any help
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Originally Posted by Train
Did you check that the PC will definitely boot from a USB drive? Generally only recent motherboards will allow it. And you'd need to explicitly set it in the BIOS to boot from an external drive.
Thanks Train for your response. When I turn on computer and depress ESC there is a boot menu that appears with a link to my external HD. clicking on it and screen goes blank and nothing happens. I don't know how to check the BIOS to see if it will Boot to a USB jack. Earlier I downloaded VMware Player but it wouldn't install, said my computer didn't have correct Kernel therefore unable to install VMware Player. As a last resort I could uninstall My OS and put Linux on main HD but am reluct to do that.
Just how old is that computer?
Make and model of the computer or if a custom/home built rig, then post the modo make and model.
Try Virtualbox instead.
http://lifehacker.com/5204434/the-be...ith-virtualbox
Computer is an HP Pavillion Mod. 6712fb
purchased 7-6-09 with Windows Vista and I upgraded to Windows 7 a couple weeks ago. Browser IE8. I'll now check the Virtual Box mentioned by Midknyte.
7-6-09 should be new enough and it is in Boot oreder where you want to make the USB the first item to boot from it.
sheprd, with that "kernel" error, you must have gotten a bad/corrupted download or something. You might try downloading it again or try a different/earlier version which you can get here near the bottom of the page:
http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/d...are_player/3_0
As for your problem of the HDD with the ISO file not booting, an ISO file can't boot by itself. The easiest way would be to burn it using "burn as image" option to a CD/DVD, then boot to that DVD/CD and install on your hard drive.
I believe my problem has been a defective External HD. My computer has never acknowledeged it. So untill I fix that nothin will work. I have another question, probably silly. Can a high capacity Flash Drive be used instead of an external HD?
Boot and run Linux from a USB flash memory stick
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/
Since I couldn't get my computer to recognize my external HD I downloaded the Linus OS onto my regular HD as an attachment. Linus said I could. Problem is I can't open the attachment to use it because it requires a MIME file be opened to access it. I can't find anything to open this kind of file. Windows can't WinZip can't either. Anyone ever encountered this type problem and if so how did you open the file? Thanks for any help
The file I'm having trouble with is
MIME Type: application/octet-stream
Can't find anything to open it with, think it is a READ ONLY file
Thanks dneilson for your response. I tried WinZip and it can't open it either.
MIME Type: application/octet-stream
This is the file in question