HowTo: Installing Ubuntu 8.10 in VirtualBox

01-05-09, 10:53 PM

propman

FWIW....nice how to on installing Ubuntu 8.10 in Virtualbox:

Installing Ubuntu 8.10 in VirtualBox
2009 January 5

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Virtualbox download site:

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01-06-09, 04:27 PM

jon.in.durham

01-06-09, 06:38 PM

propman

jon.in.durham wrote:
> propman wrote:
> Easy stuff, now try Installing OS/2 Warp 4!!!!

Sure...send me a copy! ;-)

Used OS/2 during the Windows 3.1 era though I didn't bother using OS/2
for Windows sessions but just ran a combo of OS/2 and DOS. Is IBM still
upgrading OS/2 at all.....I quit using it when they announced they were
dropping releasing it to the general public and that was quite a few
years ago now; never did get around to using v4. :-)

Just out of curiosity is there any real reason why the average user
would want to run OS/2 in this day and age?

01-06-09, 06:52 PM

jon.in.durham

propman wrote:
> jon.in.durham wrote:
>
> Sure...send me a copy! ;-)
>
> Used OS/2 during the Windows 3.1 era though I didn't bother using OS/2
> for Windows sessions but just ran a combo of OS/2 and DOS. Is IBM still
> upgrading OS/2 at all.....I quit using it when they announced they were
> dropping releasing it to the general public and that was quite a few
> years ago now; never did get around to using v4. :-)
>
> Just out of curiosity is there any real reason why the average user
> would want to run OS/2 in this day and age?
>
No reason really, just a bit of fun, just to think how things *COULD*
have been!

I need the SNAP VESA drivers as it is currently running in 680x480x16

OS/2 is alive and well and has a new identity under the Police
Protection Program.

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01-06-09, 07:11 PM

propman

jon.in.durham wrote:

>> Just out of curiosity is there any real reason why the average user
>> would want to run OS/2 in this day and age?
>>
> No reason really, just a bit of fun, just to think how things *COULD*
> have been!

Heh! I hear ya..... :-)

>
> I need the SNAP VESA drivers as it is currently running in 680x480x16

LOL!! Now *that* is a familiar scenario!! OS/2's biggest shortcoming
in the old days...lack of drivers.

Huh....never noticed before that the Virtualbox setup menu has an option
for running virtual OS/2 sessions; I'm to fixated with playing around
with linux these days I guess.

>
> OS/2 is alive and well and has a new identity under the Police
> Protection Program.
>
> [..]

Cheers....will check out the site a little later on today. :-)

01-07-09, 12:02 AM

Yousuf Khan

propman wrote:
>
> FWIW....nice how to on installing Ubuntu 8.10 in Virtualbox:
>> Installing Ubuntu 8.10 in VirtualBox
> 2009 January 5
>
> [..]
>>
> Virtualbox download site:
>
> [..]
>

It seems like more people are using Virtualbox these days for
virtualization than let's say Xen, or Vmware. At least from the amount
of traffic on newsgroups and forums it seems that way.

Yousuf Khan

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