Hi guys! Now, this will be the fourth tutorial in the Linux distros field. Now, some of you might want to install the distro itself into the Hard Drive (HD for short), however, some of you might not want to risk losing windows and going through the harrowing process of reinstalling it should that happen. Virtual machines (VM) are solutions to your problems. It can also be used to test out an OS before installing it to your hard drive. So, let's get started.
What you need:
1) Oracle VM virtual box. (Click here to download)
2) Your distro's iso file
Steps:
1)Click on the virtual box installer and go through the steps to install Virtual box. I'll call it VB for short.
2)After installation, open up virtual box. Make sure that you have the iso file somewhere in the account you are using.
3)Click on new and a window should pop up.
4)Click 'Next'
5)Type a name for your os, it can be anything, it is for you to remember for e.g Linux Mint 11 'Katya'. Then choose other linux in the dropdown menu, if your os is not listed. Then click next
6) Drag the slider to the middle of the bar. This will be the RAM assigned to your guest os, the more the better, but whatever you do, NEVER assign all the memory to your guest os. Click next.
7) Continue clicking next until you reach the end.
8)Now, you should be done and you will be brought back to the VM management screen.
9)Click on start at the top of the VM management window.
10) After waiting for a while, a new window should pop up asking you to specify the cd location. Click on image file, browse and then find your iso file. then click ok and wait for your distro to boot!
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