Virtual box question

[bgast1]

I have a DVD that I got out of a magazine with several distros on a virtual box running on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. Is it possible to install those distros from the virtual box?

[SlappyPappy]

I have a DVD that I got out of a magazine with several distros on a virtual box running on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. Is it possible to install those distros from the virtual box?

Do you mean "in" VB?

[bgast1]

Yes. Or if there is another way?

[SlappyPappy]

Sure, you can run several. I'm going to install XP for a program that I have to have that apparently won't run in W2K.

There must be people out there who are putting a bunch of different distros to check out for fun.

[bgast1]

Actually, I guess I didn't speak very clearly, by bad. For instance I have 3 hard drives. If I wanted to install say, Mint running within the virtual box onto my second hard drive? Is that possible? I guess I could just try it and see, there really isn't anything on that hard drive.

[Grishka]

Actually, I guess I didn't speak very clearly, by bad. For instance I have 3 hard drives. If I wanted to install say, Mint running within the virtual box onto my second hard drive? Is that possible? I guess I could just try it and see, there really isn't anything on that hard drive.

not sure if I get exactly what you mean, but Virtual Box uses virtual drives. it will put your virtual system intro a big file on your disk drive. you can put it anywhere you like. but you won't be able to boot into it, it will only work under Virtual Box.