RichardCL
October 27th, 2009, 08:01 AM
Hi Forum,
I'm playing around with a new laptop from work. The current system is WinXP, the hardware is Intel Atom 280. I'm thinking about putting Ubuntu on the system but I need to retain Windows for some in-house software.
The system HDD is probably too small for a dual boot and I don't feel like carrying an external drive so I'm toying with Virtual Box. Not sure whether the system is powerful enough for that with the virtualisation overhead.
The problem is that the system doesn't have a CD drive. I can create a recovery ISO from the system under Windows. I also have an old set of XP installation CDs knocking around (fully paid up licence).
How do I get the XP software into Virtualbox on a machine without CD ROM.
From a forum search I found the command
dd if=/dev/dvd of=XP.iso
The problem is that, if this doesn't work I'm stuck with a non-working system. Therefore I can't just try it....
Any help appreciated
Richard
I'm playing around with a new laptop from work. The current system is WinXP, the hardware is Intel Atom 280. I'm thinking about putting Ubuntu on the system but I need to retain Windows for some in-house software.
The system HDD is probably too small for a dual boot and I don't feel like carrying an external drive so I'm toying with Virtual Box. Not sure whether the system is powerful enough for that with the virtualisation overhead.
The problem is that the system doesn't have a CD drive. I can create a recovery ISO from the system under Windows. I also have an old set of XP installation CDs knocking around (fully paid up licence).
How do I get the XP software into Virtualbox on a machine without CD ROM.
From a forum search I found the command
dd if=/dev/dvd of=XP.iso
The problem is that, if this doesn't work I'm stuck with a non-working system. Therefore I can't just try it....
Any help appreciated
Richard