On 24.04.2009, at 07:41, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
Hi,
I tried all sorts of things with the file that I have downloaded
twice now. I seem to be able to unzip it, but it converts to .vdi
and when I click on it to open it, this is the message I get:
The document “soas-beta-1.vdi” could not be opened. The file is too
large.
This is the file that is supposed to have everything needed in one
neat package that "lives" on the MacBook. It isn't supposed to be a
"document."
You seem to have overlooked my response on what to do with the .vdi
file. It's *not* as simple as double-clicking yet, but simpler than
most of the other methods. Note that it will *only* run on one a Mac
with Intel processor, not on a G4.
Is there a secret to unzipping this thing so it can be used?
No, simply unzipping is fine.
Is there a way to open the .vdi file and run Sugar?
Yes, you need to use it in VirtualBox. I replied yesterday with a step-
by-step procedure:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Bert Freudenberg <b...@freudenbergs.de>
Date: 23. April 2009 13:15:38 MESZ
To: Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com>
Cc: IAEP SugarLabs <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [IAEP] .zip turned into .vdi What now?
On 23.04.2009, at 08:14, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
Hello Again,
Still trying to get SoaS going on my MacBook. I downloaded the
soas-beta-1.zip. It took a long time (almost 2 hrs on dsl).
It's big, 350 MB. So 2 hours would indicate a download speed of 400
kbit/sec. Depending on what DSL speed you pay for that might well
be as fast as it goes.
http://compnetworking.about.com/od/dsldigitalsubscriberline/f/dslspeed.htm
On my DSL (6000 kbit/sec) it still took 9 minutes.
I finally had time to look at it and try to use it and discovered
that it no longer is a zip file. Somehow it turned into "soas-
beta-1.vdi"
Was that supposed to happen? What do I do with it now? It is
asking what application I want to use to open it. The file is the
same size as the zip file (357 MB) so it looks like the same
file...just with a different extension. Is there a way to change
it back?
It's fine. The .zip contains a single file named .vdi so it is
uncompressed automatically. "VDI" means "Virtualbox Disk" I guess.
After downloading, run VirtualBox.
Click "New" to open the "New Virtual Machine Wizard". Click "Next".
Choose a name ("SoaS"), OS ("Linux"), Version ("Fedora"). Click
"Next".
Choose the memory (256 MB is fine). Click "Next".
Choose the disk: click "Existing...". The "Virtual Media Manager"
opens. Click "Add". Find "soas-beta-1.vdi", click "Open", then
"Select", then "Next".
Click "Finish". You're done!
Now whenever you run VirtualBox, just choose "SoaS" from the list
and click "Start" to run it. Don't worry if it appears to hang after
writing something about "loading initrd0.img", it will continue
eventually.
Note that VirtualBox "captures" your mouse pointer, to "escape",
press the left Cmd key.
Have fun with SoaS on your Mac :)
- Bert -
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