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#1 2009-12-25 13:52:39

Dinth
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Registered: 2009-03-02
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Installing Windows from Linux

Hello. I have strange problem. I MUST install Windows XP on my computer partition ASAP. Only thing i have is Windows licence and Arch installed on this computer. I dont have ANY CDROM or floppy drive in this computer. I dont have USB stick neither (but i have card reader with SD card, but i cannot boot from it). I have 2.6.33 kernel from kernel26-rc aur package, because kernel in testing have problems with my graphic card, so i cannot use VirtualBox and I will have serious problems with installing VMWare for sure.

How can i install Windows XP now? Can i use other than virtualbox or vmware virtual machine, which will installon kernel26-rc, to do that? Or maybe can i make windows ntfs partition bootable  from linux?

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#2 2009-12-25 14:23:31

sHyLoCk
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Re: Installing Windows from Linux

You have left no scope for a workaround...
Anyway, why notdowngrade your kernel so that you can use virtualbox?

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#3 2009-12-25 16:50:57

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Re: Installing Windows from Linux

If my memory doesn't deceive me, you can use virtualbox_bin in the AUR until the virtualbox-modules package gets updated.


 

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#4 2009-12-25 16:54:39

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Re: Installing Windows from Linux

Square wrote:

If my memory doesn't deceive me, you can use virtualbox_bin in the AUR until the virtualbox-modules package gets updated.

maybe the modules doesn't compile against kernel 2.6.33 but you can test using virtualbox_bin from aur.


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