Nxl67063

Installed Operating System

• Windows XP
  • Configuration files
• Ubuntu Precise Pangolin 12.04 LTS
  • Configuration files

System

Hardware Info

TBC

Log

• [2011-07-05] Info— Just got it!
• Virtual Memory settings: 2046 - 4092
• Original partition:

Device	Label	Size	Type	Comment
/dev/sda1/	AWS_Data	768 MiB	NTFS
/dev/sda2/	AWS_System	148 GiB	NTFS	Windows C:

• [2011-07-05] Ubuntu Live — To boot Ubuntu 10.04 Live, edit kernel line and change splash quiet into nosplash nomodeset ([1], [2])
• [2011-07-05] Ubuntu Live — Resize AWS_System to 36700921855 bytes, and create new data partition (See Resize an NTFS partition):
• [2011-07-05] Ubuntu Live — Backup MBR:

sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=nxl67063-sda-20110705.mbr bs=512 count=63
sudo sfdisk -l -uS /dev/sda >nxl67002-sfdisk-20110705.txt

• [2011-07-05] Ubuntu Live — Backup NTFS (See Backup an NTFS partition).
• [2011-07-05] BIOS — Virtualization - Enabled Virtualization instruction + Virtualization IO
• [2012-06-13] BIOS — Performance - Disabled HyperThreading (4 CPUs)
• [2012-06-27] BIOS — Performance - Enabled HyperThreading (4 CPUs)
• [2012-09-17] Resize — (Ubuntu USB) Resize windows partition to allow for a physical partition for VBox:

  sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=nxl670002-sda-20100321.mbr bs=512 count=63
  sudo sfdisk -l -uS /dev/sda >nxl670002-sfdisk-20100321.txt
  sudo ntfsresize -i /dev/sda3
  # Current volume size: 122531996160 (122532 MB)
  # Current device size: 122531996160 (122532 MB)
  sudo ntfsresize -n -s 50G /dev/sda3
  sudo ntfsresize -s 50G /dev/sda3              # Resize the partition small enough
  sudo sfdisk -d /dev/sda3 > sda
  vi sda                                        # Edit partition table, make sure it can hold the 50G
  sudo sfdisk /dev/sda3 <sda
  sudo ntfsresize -f -n /dev/sda3
  sudo ntfsresize -f /dev/sda3                  # Resize partition to match current partition size
  

  
  

Partition

Linux dev	Windows dev	Type	Label	Size	Type	Linux Options	Linux Mount
TBC	\Device\Harddisk0\Partition?	primary	TBC	TBC	TBC