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Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Phill MV wrote:
>>> Define Safe?  I would never manipulate partitions unless I was ready to
>>> do a full recovery... The process isn't bugged or error prone, but an
>>> inconveniently timed power outage or hardware failure can do much more
>>> damage than usual.
>>
>> Well, let's define safe to be, "barring freak accidents external to the
>> software, if you follow the steps in the vast majority of cases it will work
>> perfectly" :P. I just have no means to perform recovery, because getting it
>> reimaged is a large hurdle.
>
> Another option I didn't mention was to use the vmware converter tool to
> convert your existing computer into a VMWare image. Then you can install
> Ubuntu, install VMWare, and run your old computer as the vmware image
> rather than Ubuntu.
>
> If you do that, though, you should rename your Windows computer image so
> it doesn't cause network issues...you would need to rename it and, if
> you have a static IP set, change that when you test it. XP running an
> image of itself in VMWare will probably cause hiccups in your network
> connectivity when it goes schizophrenic and for once it isn't Windows'
> fault.

no need to rename your machine or change fixed IPs unless you are going to keep the other machine around for a while, you are going to run both machines at once, and you are going to use bridged networking on the VM.  also, converting to a VM does change your MAC so if there is a DHCP reservation for that PC it might need to be updated to keep things current.

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