Rockedge, will Test3-radky.tar work if the virtual HDD is formatted to ext3? Although there are other advantages to using ext4 rather than ext3, https://askubuntu.com/questions/44908/w ... erspective the principal ones are:
"Overall maximum ext4 file system size is 1 EB (exabyte). 1 EB = 1024 PB (petabyte). 1 PB = 1024 TB (terabyte). [As opposed to 4TB under Ext3, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/250 ... bit-system]
A directory can contain a maximum of 64,000 subdirectories (as opposed to 32,000 in ext3)."
Such greater capacity is hardly to have value when running an OS within a Virtual Machine. Ext4 formatting would be a perk; but not essential.
@wizard, I wanted to try this on my finicky HP Laptop. But I've gotten lost in the replies. Which version do I download. The boot partition, sda1, is formatted Fat32. And, IIRC, I just download the file, make it executable and run it before running grubconfig? Or something else? The reason I ask is that when I downloaded a file named Test3-radky.tar and extracted it, this was it contents:
![Contents.png](./download/file.php?id=22376&sid=e55254d376674c7189916f9912b5cfcc)
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So just making a tar file executable seemed wrong.
p.s. The "@wizard' above is in red because I "colorized" it. Have I missed trick to have such notation colorized automatically?