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I'm trying to install kali Linux on VMWare. But I click on iso file of kali Linux. Now when I open a file explorer I see that there is new DVD drive is shown with name "DVD Drive(F) Install Kali Linux" with space "0byte free of 379MB".
Now my question is that, does this new created DVD drive takes 379 MB of memory from my hard disk ? If yes then how should I delete this and recover this memory to my hard disk back. If not then where does this 379 MB of memory came from ?
Please tell the answer by keeping in mind I'm installing OS for the first time.
To clarify things 379MB is the size of your Kali Linux (netinstall) ISO file, you don't have to free memory or delete anything, you just need to unmount (or eject) the virtual DVD on Windows side. This "memory", as you said, came from that...
If you double-click on any *.iso file on Windows, this will "mount" that virtual DVD (not virtual as virtual machine I mean), but this is not absolutely needed to get your job done.
To install a new VM (Kali) on VMWare you should create a new virtual machine inside that environment and attach the ISO file, then create a virtual HD and boot your newly created VM from ISO to complete the installation process. Netinstall ISOs needs an active internet connection to download packages during install stage, no differences between physical and virtual machines for that. So make sure you provided that too. Bye.
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My laptop used to come with windows 10, but then I decided to install ubuntu on it instead. Now I would like to install windows 10. Is there way to get windows 10 back?
First you will need a bootable USB - a USB flash drive that has at least 16GB of space (there are free programs that you will find available on internet to make the USB bootable), download Windows 10 ISO file and add to the USB.
Alter the BIOS sequence on your PC so your USB device is first. In most instances, the BIOS will usually not be automatically set to your device. If you skip this step, your computer will start regularly from your hard drive instead of getting boot information from your USB device, then follow the steps to install the windows OS.
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apologies in advance in case someone answers this already (but looks like have tried everything)
Just build my first pc recently:
AMD® Ryzen 5 3600 6-core processor
ASUS Prime X570-P ATX Motherboard
burn Ubuntu to USB from my MacBook and it's all working fine. ( Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS )
The problem is that I wanna install Windows 10 into PC also.
Have done partition on SSD (have just one SSD + HDD).
But no matter what I try can't seems to install everything right.
It's one of these:
Or pc just can't find my flash drive ( probably something is wrong with the way I burn iso to it)
Or if it does found it I get an error somewhere in the middle of installing, that there is no file for the next step or something like that. ( iso downloaded from Microsoft official page)
I have tried it with various programs (on ios and ubuntu) or even a command line. Even changing settings in BIOS to boot any external drive.
The easy way is to format your Ubuntu partition and install Windows first. Then the Ubuntu installer will automatically detect Windows and and you should be fine.
The hard way is to keep Ubuntu and install Windows. Then you will need to restore grub (Ubuntu's boot loader).
You have to run and install both OS with in (U)EFI mode and adjust some settings in UEFI. This could be the reason for the flashdrive not being found. If you have used tools like Rufus for creation of the bootable USB drive it could also be broken. It is enough to format the flashdrive with FAT32 and copy the contents of the ISO into its root.
Maybe this and this will help
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I am trying to install Ubuntu on windows using Oracle VM virtual Box from an ISO disk image.When I try to install, the installer gives a prompt that " The computer currently has no operating systems" I am wondering if this should have detected my windows operating system or is it just trying to detect Operating systems within the virtual Box.
The reason being it gives only two options to install
--Erase disk and install Ubuntu
-- Resize partition for Ubuntu
I do not want to erase all files on my windows operating system. Does anybody know what does the 'disk' in the discussion mean>
The installer is looking for OS installations on the disk in the VM, not the host machine. You are perfectly safe selecting Erase disk and install Ubuntu, and in most situations in a VM, that is the correct choice.
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Im using VMware and my guest OS is mac OS X 10.7.5. My host OS is windows 7
Now the vmdk file ( the virtual hard disk file) is almost 120GB. In my windows, the total size of the partition is 120GB, where the virtual OS located.
I cannot use my virtual Mac any more because of the storge. Is there any way to reduce the size of the virtual machine. I have already cleaned my Mac and deleted some stuff inside Mac, but it seems no decline from my windows, still red alert on that partition.
If it's a fixed size virtual disk you can not shrink it unless you convert it to a dynamic size. The only way to do that is to copy all the data into a new dynamic sized disk with
VBoxManage clonehd [old-VDI] [new-VDI] --variant Standard
Command from here
Just note you'll need the space to store two copies of the disk so this might not work without more storage space
If it's dynamicly sized you need to remove files in the virtual OS to shrink it other wise there's no way to shrink it.
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after playing with virtual hard drive in windows 7 (first time) this is a recap on how you do it in case you are a newbie. I use two steps: disk2vhd.exe and then oracle VM
I used disk2vhd(from system internals) to convert the physical PC to a virtual Hard Drive (VHD)
when running disk2vhd.exe you can choose what drive you want to have, I did checked my c:\ and the system reserved (there is one more PQService drive which I did not select, but so far am working fine as of dec 12,2013)
a note: if you don't select/check the system reserved drive the VHD won't work under virtual box).
once the disk2vhd.exe finished I started my oracle VM virtual box and click new button, a wizard poped; enter the name(myPC), type(Microsoft windows), version(windows 7 64bit),Memory size (at least 4096mb) ,Hard Drive - select "use an existing virtual hard drive file" select the vhd image created by disk2vhd.exe, continue and finish the wizard... once the VM is created here is the tricky part, click the setting button and go to storage under storage tree add your VHD to the controller IDE and under attributes- Hard disk: IDE primary master (at this point was able to start my VM. it did run couple check disks but, started fine.
Please feel free to add to this post if I missed something important....thanks.
good luck!