Installing 32 bit Debian 8.1 on a virtual machine (via virtualbox)

2015-06-26 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi,

I have been trying to install Debian 8.1 on my virtual machine, from the
netinstall CD ISO. The machine has 64 GB HDD allocated to it and 1 GB RAM.
It also has 3D video acceleration enabled. Its video memory is 64 MB. The
one named debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso. The issue is that I set it to
install the following desktop environments:
* Cinnamon
* GNOME
* KDE
* LXDE
* XFCE
during installation and it recorded that not all packages were installed
properly (although it spent hours and hours saying it was retrieving files
and installing them so I'm fairly confident it at least downloaded the
packages). I successfully installed grub on it after I received this
message.

I then rebooted but all I have is the command-line bash interface (tty1). I
ran `apt-get install sudo` and `apt-get update` as root user, the first
suggested that I should run the second. The second command (`apt-get
update`) gave me errors recorded in: http://i.imgur.com/dRaGiY6.png.

How do I get past these errors and get into at least one of the GUI desktop
environments I selected?

Thanks for your time,
Brenton


Re: Installing 32 bit Debian 8.1 on a virtual machine (via virtualbox)

2015-06-26 Thread Brenton Horne
I would have done the text copy if I could. I have set copy-paste to
bidirectional in Virtualbox but for whatever reason I can't seem to
copy-paste anything from the virtual machine to my host machine.

On 26 June 2015 at 18:11, Nicolas George geo...@nsup.org wrote:

 L'octidi 8 messidor, an CCXXIII, Brenton Horne a écrit :
  I then rebooted but all I have is the command-line bash interface
 (tty1). I
  ran `apt-get install sudo` and `apt-get update` as root user, the first
  suggested that I should run the second. The second command (`apt-get
  update`) gave me errors recorded in: http://i.imgur.com/dRaGiY6.png.

 A text copy-paste would have been better. Also avoiding punctuations at the
 end of URLs.

 It looks like DNS resolution does not work properly in your box. Check
 /etc/resolv.conf; the correct way of fixing it depends on your network
 setup.

 Regards,

 --
   Nicolas George




-- 
Thanks for your time,
Brenton


Debian KDE, repeatedly asking me to insert a CD

2015-06-26 Thread Brenton Horne
Hi,

After I previously attempted to install the testing version of Debian
(although I thought it was the stable 8.1 version) on a virtualbox machine
I decided to use the debian-8.1.0-i386-kde-CD-1.iso ISO. This installation
occurred without error and the net connection is fine (why I'm even using
its connection to send this email). The reason I am sending this email,
however, is that I installed scilab via APT (which also happened without
incident) and since then whenever I run `apt-get install package`, where
package can be substituted with whatever package ya want and it doesn't
seem to make any difference, I get the following message after I answer `Y`
to do I want to continue with the installation:

`Media change: please insert the disc labeled
 'Debian GNU/Linux 8.1.0 _Jessie_ - Official i386 kde-CD Binary-1
20150606-13:00'
in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press enter`

And I'm wondering what's this is about. My original ISO which I used to
install this virtual machine (VM) is still connected to the VM (I know it's
no longer needed after the installation is complete, it's just I haven't
shut the machine down yet so I haven't had the chance to remove it).

Thanks for your time,
Brenton


Re: Debian KDE, repeatedly asking me to insert a CD

2015-06-26 Thread Brenton Horne
Oops I will ammend that original statement of mine. So far package values
of:
* gnome
* build-essential

seem to be the only ones that trigger this request for me to insert this
particular ISO (I have tried package values of git, curl, octave and
gnome-session without this issue). I have since logged out and removed the
ISO from the VM and it doesn't seem to have made any difference.

On 26 June 2015 at 21:10, Brenton Horne brentonhorn...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,

 After I previously attempted to install the testing version of Debian
 (although I thought it was the stable 8.1 version) on a virtualbox machine
 I decided to use the debian-8.1.0-i386-kde-CD-1.iso ISO. This installation
 occurred without error and the net connection is fine (why I'm even using
 its connection to send this email). The reason I am sending this email,
 however, is that I installed scilab via APT (which also happened without
 incident) and since then whenever I run `apt-get install package`, where
 package can be substituted with whatever package ya want and it doesn't
 seem to make any difference, I get the following message after I answer `Y`
 to do I want to continue with the installation:

 `Media change: please insert the disc labeled
  'Debian GNU/Linux 8.1.0 _Jessie_ - Official i386 kde-CD Binary-1
 20150606-13:00'
 in the drive '/media/cdrom/' and press enter`

 And I'm wondering what's this is about. My original ISO which I used to
 install this virtual machine (VM) is still connected to the VM (I know it's
 no longer needed after the installation is complete, it's just I haven't
 shut the machine down yet so I haven't had the chance to remove it).

 Thanks for your time,
 Brenton




-- 
Thanks for your time,
Brenton