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Creating Windows 7 image to run in VirtualBox
Post 302741579 by jimbob01 on Sunday 9th of December 2012 06:55:17 AM
12-09-2012
Creating Windows 7 image to run in VirtualBox
Hey guys,
Not sure if this is the best place for this question, but, after using Fedora now for about a year, I'm still getting used to it but I'm using it practically all the time now and instead of having a dual boot with Windows 7, I want to create an image of my Windows 7 installation, format the drive, install a clean version of Fedora 17 and then install VirtualBox and run my Windows installation from there (only need Windows for certain software and don't need a dual boot, only used it a few times in the past year!).
Anyone any ideas or good tutorial for doing so ? I've done a few google searches but there is a lot of conflicting information about how it should be done and although I've asked in other places about this, I've kinda come up empty and then figured this was probably the best place to ask!
Seen some blog posts about using CloneZilla, but other posts about using the 'dd' command from a LiveDVD, but to be honest, I'm not sure of the best way to go . . . . . and none of the articles I found were idiots guides, which I probably need
Thanks for any help.
Jim
Not sure if this is the best place for this question, but, after using Fedora now for about a year, I'm still getting used to it but I'm using it practically all the time now and instead of having a dual boot with Windows 7, I want to create an image of my Windows 7 installation, format the drive, install a clean version of Fedora 17 and then install VirtualBox and run my Windows installation from there (only need Windows for certain software and don't need a dual boot, only used it a few times in the past year!).
Anyone any ideas or good tutorial for doing so ? I've done a few google searches but there is a lot of conflicting information about how it should be done and although I've asked in other places about this, I've kinda come up empty and then figured this was probably the best place to ask!
Seen some blog posts about using CloneZilla, but other posts about using the 'dd' command from a LiveDVD, but to be honest, I'm not sure of the best way to go . . . . . and none of the articles I found were idiots guides, which I probably need
Thanks for any help.
Jim
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ikiwiki-calendar
ikiwiki-calendar(1) General Commands Manual ikiwiki-calendar(1) NAME
ikiwiki-calendar - create calendar archive pages SYNOPSIS
ikiwiki-calendar [-f] your.setup [pagespec] [startyear [endyear]] DESCRIPTION
ikiwiki-calendar creates pages that use the ikiwiki/directive/calendar directive, allowing the archives to be browsed one month at a time, with calendar-based navigation. You must specify the setup file for your wiki. The pages will be created inside its srcdir, beneath the archivebase directory used by the calendar plugin (default "archives"). To control which pages are included on the calendars, a ikiwiki/PageSpec can be specified. The default is all pages, or the pages specified by the comments_pagespec setting in the config file. A pagespec can also be specified on the command line. To limit it to only posts in a blog, use something like "posts/* and !*/Discussion". It defaults to creating calendar pages for the current year. If you specify a year, it will create pages for that year. Specify a second year to create pages for a span of years. Existing pages will not be overwritten by this command by default. Use the -f switch to force it to overwrite any existing pages. CRONTAB
While this command only needs to be run once a year to update the archive pages for each new year, you are recommended to set up a cron job to run it daily, at midnight. Then it will also update the calendars to highlight the current day. An example crontab: 0 0 * * * ikiwiki-calendar ~/ikiwiki.setup 'posts/* and !*/Discussion' TEMPLATES
This command uses two templates to generate the pages, calendarmonth.tmpl and calendaryear.tmpl. AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joey@ikiwiki.info> ikiwiki-calendar(1)