I Learned It Online

The company I work for has defined Virtual PC as our corporate standard for virtualization. As a result, getting any distro on Linux to run is can be a huge pain. For my own reasons, I prefer using Linux for running MySQL, Apache, & PHP. I am very aware of the fact that I could do all of this on the Windows OS, but I still prefer to do it under Linux. So I wanted to install debian and I could not find anything online about doing so. This is the first time I ever worked with debian, so I had that additional challenge.

So I started out by finding this entry at `The Sean Blog` about running Ubuntu from Virtual PC 2007. Of course you can’t really follow the steps, as you won’t find most of these in the debian install. We will not go through every step of the install as most of it is just common sense as to what to select. For the most part I simply selected the defaults and continued on. It wasn’t until after the first boot proceeding the installation that I had to do anything. Read more »