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How-to Install & Uninstall Linux Mint 7 inside the Windows C


This screencast tutorial video from www.OSGUI.com is all about How-to Install Linux Mint 7 or any version of Ubuntu inside the Windows C Drive from within Windows Vista in this Demo. This way of installing is not a Virtual Machine and does not require to re-partition the hard drive nor does it hurt Windows in any way. Then I show how to un-install Ubuntu or Linux Mint from within Windows Vista.

Install Linux inside Windows using Virtualbox – Part 1


This how-to screencast shows how you can easily create a Virtual Machine running Ubuntu Linux 9.10 Karmic Koala on your Windows system using the free virtualbox software from Sun. In Part 1 you will learn where to get everything you will need, how to prepare a Virtual Machine and how to install Ubuntu in it.

Tech Tip: Dereference Variable Names Inside Bash Functions

Bash shell

We often read (including in the book
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide by Mendel Cooper)
that if we pass variable names as parameters to functions,
they will be treated as string literals and cannot be dereferenced
(ie the value is not available). But this is not so, variable names
can be passed as parameters to functions and they can be
dereferenced to obtain the value of the variable with the given name.
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