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country0129 · 10-20-2012, 07:04 PM

I have run Calibre for Windoze for a long time. Trying now to run it on Mint 10, 64-bit, under guest session of Virtual Box. However, after installing Calibre in the VM, I cannot point my books directory of the Wizard to my resident Calibre directory: it's greyed out and won't allow anything but a directory change. I am having difficulty finding the drive in the file manager of Mint. (feel silly!) Now I see that you say there are problems accessing a directory from both OS's......maybe I should forgo the attempt. I was just wanting to try to take advantage of additional RAM (if possible) through Linux, for Windoze only uses about 3.4-5 G with X86 architecture. Does it take advantage of additional RAM under Linux with 64-bit OS?

10-20-2012, 07:04 PM	#5
country0129 Country0129 Posts: 55 Karma: 506306 Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Louisiana Device: Kindle, Kindle Fire, PC	I have run Calibre for Windoze for a long time. Trying now to run it on Mint 10, 64-bit, under guest session of Virtual Box. However, after installing Calibre in the VM, I cannot point my books directory of the Wizard to my resident Calibre directory: it's greyed out and won't allow anything but a directory change. I am having difficulty finding the drive in the file manager of Mint. (feel silly!) Now I see that you say there are problems accessing a directory from both OS's......maybe I should forgo the attempt. I was just wanting to try to take advantage of additional RAM (if possible) through Linux, for Windoze only uses about 3.4-5 G with X86 architecture. Does it take advantage of additional RAM under Linux with 64-bit OS?