Boot A Linux Virtual Machine Under Windows In Less Than 5 Minutes Great for learning Linux

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Ever want to learn linux but you didn't have a second machine to run it on?

 

You can make a virtual machine that boots from a virtual CD-ROM image and do this in less than 5 minutes.

 

Here is a great one to start with, it only takes up 50 MB on your machine:

Main Page: http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/index.html

 

Here is a quickstart guide for how to :

1. Download a DSL image that uses QEMU (from here: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ ) If you have a slow download speed, this will take you longer than the previously mentioned 5 minutes...

2. Unzip the file to a directory on your hard drive

3. double click on the file named dsl-windows.bat

4. You should see a window where linux starts up in its own virtual machine. Viola, a second computer running a completely different operating system!

 

Need to know what you are doing in Linux? Take a quick Linux Tutorial: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/