[Astlinux-users] VirtualBox with AstLinux guest

[Lonnie A. <li...@lo...>]

Hi Cody,

I just tried the latest VirtualBox on my Mac OS X system and I was able to use the latest "Guest VM x86-64bit (Video Console):" Install ISO and our instructions, and it all worked as expected.

Your "error zeroing first 1 GB" would imply the VirtualBox virtual drive was not created properly ... Hmmmm not sure how you could have gone wrong there.

I like to keep the install ISO and the created VirtualBox files in the same folder.

Give it another try.

Lonnie


On Aug 28, 2017, at 10:02 PM, Cody Alderson <ald...@gm...> wrote:

> Lonnie,
> 
> This may require a new post, but I get an "error zeroing first 1 GB" when installing Astlinux on Virtual Box. Do you have any idea what may cause that? The install fails because of it.
> 
> -Cody
> 
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo...> wrote:
> Hi Cody, (comments inline)
> 
> On Aug 28, 2017, at 10:44 AM, Cody Alderson <ald...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> > Can you recommend a book for a Windows guy that goes back to the days of DOS to understand Linux better?
> 
> Googling I found this page: (a part of a college class)
> http://www.cis.rit.edu/class/simg211/unixintro/Filesystem.html
> 
> Though if you want to learn Linux by doing it would be best for you to install
> VirtualBox [ https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads ] on Windows and then install
> AstLinux [ https://doc.astlinux-project.org/userdoc:guest_vm_virtualbox ] as a guest of your Windows VirtualBox host.
> 
> Playing with AstLinux as a guest of the VirtualBox VM so you can't do any damage to your production AstLinux system.  If you mess-up you can easily reinstall from the ISO and try again.
>