Thanks for the reply, Jason! On 05/18/2010 02:18 PM, Jason Barnett wrote: > I'm working from memory but I think this works. > 1) Create a linux VM (I would just use a live ISO image) > 2) set your Windows dd image as hda
I think I get the rest of this, but could you be more clear as to what I'm doing in step 2? Thanks, Scott > 3) make a new virtual expanding drive the same size as your dd image and set > it as hdb > 4) boot the VM and use dd to copy hda to hdb ( dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb > bs=512 ) > 5) wait.... > 6) once the copy is done, shut down the VM, remove the original dd image and > set the new expanding drive as hda > 7) Set the VM to boot from hda (instead of the iso image ) > 8) boot the VM into windows > > This should make the new drive only as big as it needs to be, instead of the > full 80 Gigs. Even if it is still 80 Gigs, at least you can use one of the > previously mentioned options on the native VirtualBox drive image. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
