Installing Ubunt from Ubunt (update plan when new versions are released)

It was necessary to install ubuntu on a working computer from an already installed ubunt (without interfering with my wife working on the computer). The installation was done by connecting to the computer from the laptop through the FreeNX.

So, lying on the couch with the laptop, connecting to the computer via FreeNX, do the following:

option 1:

1) Download ubuntu-9.10-alternate-i386.iso
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2) sudo apt-get install kvm

3) sudo kvm -m 512 -cdrom ubuntu-9.10-alternate-i386.iso /dev/sdb (where / dev / sdb is the second screw to install the OS on)

4) further installation takes place, the bootloader is installed on / dev / sdb.

5) now you can create an empty virtual machine in VMWarePlayer, add the physical disk / dev / sdb to it and start our new ubuntu.

6) For comfortable work through VMWare, you can install WMVare Tools.

7) Now you can configure this fresh Ubuntu, install (and maybe remove unnecessary) packages.

8) Add to the bootloader on / dev / sda our new ubuntu.

option2:

1) Download ubuntu-9.10-alternate-i386.iso

2) in VMWarePlayer, create an empty virtual machine, add the physical disk / dev / sdb and the image ubuntu-9.10-alternate-i386.iso to it.

3) Start this virtual machine. Ubuntu installer starts.

4) Install the bootloader on / dev / sdb.

5) Execute items 6, 7, 8 from Option # 1.

Now you can restart the working computer, select the new OS and press Enter.

TOTAL:
so we have 2 disks for the system. In sda, the current working system. There is a new version of the distribution, put it on sdb, set up. Meanwhile, the computer is controlled by the system with sda. Then there will be the most difficult thing to copy the image from sdb to sda. And we have a new system on sda. A copy of the sdb system can be used for experiments and wait for the new version of ubunt, then repeat the steps.

Shl: I have the / home partition on sdc.