[clug-talk] Virtual Box Troubles

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I've see, on more than a few occasions, installs go south due to bad  
memory even though the previous install of the same OS ran fine.

Dave Watkins

1-403-701-5746
Support at CalgaryITServices.com
www.calgaryitservices.com

Sent from my iPhone, pardon the brevity.

On 2010-05-26, at 22:26, "GJM" <gjm at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Not yet.... tend to be nervous of free O/S of the windows  
> variety ..etc on
> the net but might end up trying that... VB says it is supposed to  
> run Win2K
> tho I am wondering if it is my install CD which is Serv Pack 1.
>
> I may get ambitious enuff to do a fresh install of win2k on a PC and  
> create
> an image of the drive and import that to VB.
>
> I have also tried doing an install with Fedora 10 as the host O/S  
> with the
> same results.... crashes and restarts the install process from the  
> beginning
> as it is completing the installation process..... so I suspect that  
> it is
> VBox related as the host O/S does not change the outcome.
>
> I downloaded a copy of Ubuntu-9-10.vdi and it works fine in Vbox as  
> did an
> an original installation of NT4 (ya.... I know) also tried win95/98  
> but VBox
> won't recognize the CD media as bootable.... the win2k and win95/98  
> CD's all
> have installed correctly on a PC past with no problems.
>
> Thanx
> Gary
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Virtual Box Troubles
>
> Have you tried a pre-built image of 2K yet? There are pre-built images
> on the web....... somewhere.
>
> Dave Watkins
>
> 1-403-701-5746
> Support at CalgaryITServices.com
> www.calgaryitservices.com
>
> Sent from my iPhone, pardon the brevity.
>
> On 2010-05-25, at 14:11, Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca> wrote:
>
>> On 10-05-25 12:59 PM, GJM wrote:
>
>
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