Formattin NTFS into ext3 for XP installation in VirtualBox...

[vpnm_87]

my

$ fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0680067f

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1912 15358108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1913 9729 62790052+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 1913 3824 15358108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 3825 6633 22563261 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 6634 6757 995998+ 82 Linux swap/Solaris
/dev/sda8 6758 8216 11719386 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 8217 9729 12153141 83 Linux


attached snapshot of my system monitor window...

Now i want to install XP(or cteate some virtual drive) in /dev/sda1 which is 14.6 GB with HPFS/NTFS....
can someone kindly provide some help to achieve that?

BTW, Can anybody tell me what is that 68.3 MiB in my /dev/sda1?

[vpnm_87]

I used Gparted and reformatted my first NTFS partition into ext3 partition...
Things went fine except some permission and owner problems..i guess now its fine:-)

But didnt try installing XP in that partiton using VirtualBox..moved my /home to separate partition and successfully installed XP in another partition

[Chronon]

A virtual disk is just a file on your host's file system. You can have any format you like for the virtual filesystem. If you want to virtualize XP then just mount the installation disk and install it to a blank virtual disk.