On Thursday 01 October 2009 02:58:50 pm Daniel Burrell wrote:
> Hi,
> I've had experience installing vbox ose on ubuntu 9.04
> However, I now want to install vbox on zeroshell OS, (running on usb
stick),
> however I would like all the programs installed on the hard disk
provided.
> Is this possible?
> What's the best way
> I notice there's a general linux.run program, but I've no idea what to
do
> with it.
> Zeroshell has a command prompt, so will i not be able to get a GUI?
> Could somebody please point me to a detailed set of instructions for
> installing this? And any other information you think might be useful
in
> approaching this problem.
>
> Thanks
>
Hello, Daniel --
Perhaps I am not reading your comments correctly -- but it seems to me
as if you do not yet really know quite what you want to do. To whatever
extent I am correct, you really need to make some decisions and then
post the resulting inquiry.
VirtualBox-OSE is basically used for the purpose of having access to a
genuine (licensed) operating system WITHIN another (licensed) operating
system. For example, I am running Kubuntu Jaunty (9.04) as my "host"
operating system, and I use VirtualBox-OSE to access the "guest"
operating system Windows XP Pro -- which is the only way I have to run
an application called "Libronix".
You state that "I now want to install vbox on zeroshell OS". Then you
say "Zeroshell has a command prompt, so will i not be able to get a
GUI?" I have NO familiarity with "ZeroShell". But I am very logical.
If you really want to run ZeroShell, you really "must" know whether or
not ZeroShell has a GUI -- at least if the GUI is important to you. In
other words, there is a possibility that you do NOT "want to install
vbox on zeroshell OS"!!!
Perhaps you should decide -- and then tell the list! -- what operating
system is to be your "host" and what operating system(s) will be your
"guest(s)", rather as I did above.
You continued the first sentence that I quoted by saying "(running on usb
stick), however I would like all the programs installed on the hard disk
provided. Is this possible?" You have told us NOTHING of what "the
hard disk provided" refers to. We have no idea what space is occupied
by whatever programs you may have in mind. Neither do we know whether
your USB stick is a tremendous 256-MB item or whether it is 32-GB or
even 64-GB. It should be obvious that such information is essential for
anyone who would try to answer your question! Perhaps you will help us
to help you!!!
Another issue that is not at all clear just yet is why you want this
installation on a USB stick. Are you going to take it on a trip and use
it to boot into ZeroShell and your applications on local library
computers? Is it merely a backup system for your desktop system? Or
what? The answers to such questions are also essential if anyone is
going to give you "a detailed set of instructions" -- that will actually
do what you want the resulting installation to do!
Lacking "the rest of the story" (as we are thus far), I am concerned
that you may get so many conflicting responses that you can hardly sort
through the mess(!). Worse yet, any response may well be perfectly
correct in a technical sense -- but not at all what you "really" need
and want.
Let me warn you of one interesting problem you probably face at this
point -- without even recognizing it. Once you provide such details to
us, you have sort of "signed-off on the project specifications". This
means that YOU are then responsible for any discrepancy between what you
"actually wrote" and what you "should have written"! Frankly, this CAN
be rather scary! But it is only when we know what you want to
accomplish that we can be of any real help.
I sincerely hope that these observations are at least helpful to you!
Bruce Mac Arthur
15875 Switzer
Overland Park, KS 66221
913-897-4157
[email protected]
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