I have done a fresh install of Hipster 2017.10 and Vbox 5.2.2 and the 5.2.2 extension pack. I have booted the repair disk for Windows 7 Pro. But when I try to find a system image on an NTFS formatted USB disk it doesn't see the disk. Nor does it find the last DVD. It did once, but failed after reading the first DVD. A number of other tries have not seen the DVD. I have successfully done a system image recovery from the same USB hard drive earlier today to a bare drive. I've also done a successful recovery from the DVDs to a bare drive with the exact same setup.
CentOS 6.7 continues to produce a "no bootable media" error. If anyone has done this successfully would you *please* post the particular version of VBox that you use. I bought a Z400 because it was certified for Solaris, so I don't *think* it is to blame. I just successfully started an install of Hipster 2017.10 as a guest of Hipster 2017.10. WTF!!! It seems clear that Oracle munged things at some point. I just need to know what version works with Windows and Linux. Once Hipster installs under Hipster I think I'll go beat my head against the wall for a while. After that I guess my next adventure will be to try installing Windows 7 as a guest of Windows 7. Reg BTW A couple of grumbles about the Hipster installer: I just specified the root password a few minutes earlier, would you *please* not expire it on the first use? I have a couple dozen OS instances including Plan 9. I *really* do need to use the same root password. I had to reboot to stop an install. Killing the install process was not enough. In general, Solaris users are pretty savvy. Would you please not provide Microsoft style "assistance"? I *do* actually know what I want to do. Sometimes I change my mind and would like to go back and change something. I don't want to wait for an install from a DVD to complete. The really nice thing about traditional Unix was it respected its users. Picky about its friends perhaps, but still respectful. Increasingly I see a "you're too stupid, so we'll help you out" meme. It's *really* annoying. ------------------------------------------ illumos-discuss Archives: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/discussions/T75c2df64019250ac-Me43106850afb5bbe461b9947 Powered by Topicbox: https://topicbox.com
