On 21/02/18 16:54, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2018-02-21 at 15:04 +0000, John Pilkington wrote:
I have just acquired an i3 box with 2*500 GB disks, 4 GB ram and
Windows10, essentially 'because it was there' and because my grandson's
homework typically assumes an M$ environment. Fact.
In the past I would have installed Fedora as a double-boot, but this
list has much of talk of virtual boxes. I'd like a few pointers on
their practicality on this box and where to start.
I assume you mean a Windows guest under a Fedora host, rather than the
other way round. Probably the easiest way to try it is with VirtualBox
as it has a fairly clear GUI install process. Set up a basic Win10
system with 20GB of disk and 2GB of RAM and test it. You'll need a
Windows installer image of course (DVD or ISO file). However with 4GB
of host memory it's going to be less than ideal. Adding another 4GB
stick (and reconfiguring the VM to use 4GB, with whatever additional
disk space you need) would probably make a noticeable difference.
poc
Thank you both for your replies. Yes, I had expected that I would use
mainly the Fedora option but would have Win10 available so that I could
see it in action; news of WSL came as something of a surprise. I'm not
in any great hurry although I guess I ought to fire it up to see that it
actually works. I had suspected that more ram would be a good idea, and
there are slots unpopulated.
John
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