This installation will work on distributions based on Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux Mint. Here we will show how it works in Linux Mint. First, we open the /etc/apt/sources.list to see which Ubuntu repositories our distribution uses.
For those who are trying to install Linux on Windows XP or another older OS on a computer with physical memory size 1 GB or less (which is now considered small), only special tiny versions of Linux will work. An example is CorePlus-current.iso (only 72 MB), which can be downloaded from and other websites. This OS will run in 256 MB of memory under VirtualBox. I was able to install and run two different browsers in the guest OS (Core Plus), all from within the guest. Of course, they both ran slowly, but they appeared to run correctly.
And, of course, it is possible create a VM that contains MS-DOS 6 and Windows 3.1 under VirtualBox running on an XP with a small memory. For practical and up-to-speed execution of most OSes under VirtualBox, I recommend that the host be a 'modern' computer and OS. Phil B: Hello. Some people have a basic and simple works to do in linux, those people don't need to install a really OS, sometimes who are installing the really linux OS side by side with windows, they are have some problems with booting files, if you want to installing these together you should be install windows first then install linux after that. About the printers, some brands like HP supported linux OS, they use HPLIP (Hewlett-Packard's Linux Imaging and Printing) software, try use it.