[colug-432] Experiment with Virtual Machines

[Don]

Jep,

Sound advice.  Have never worked with virtual machine, so might have to
look into that.  I see on the Linux shows that they test out new systems in
virtual.  My efforts tend to be to use a burned LIVE distro to try out, but
know that is not as great experience, but gives some idea if my system will
handle the new software.

Don



On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 5:00 PM, <jep200404 at columbus.rr.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:47:26 -0500, Rick Troth <rmt at casita.net> wrote:
>
> > If you plan to experiment then I recommend you learn as much command
> > line and "text mode" as you can. Makes recovery a lot easier.
>
> Playing around in virtual machines eases "recovery" also.
>
> Make a fresh virtual machine and do a plain install of the
> hot new disto on it. Then clone it and futz around.
> If your futzing screws things up the clone,
> then reclone the original distro and futz around some more.
>
> Don't get rid of an old virtual machine until you are happy
> with the new virtual machine.
>
> Writing down what you do and what happened is helpful.
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