virtualbox elementary stalled at Erase Disk and Install
I trying to install an Elementary iso on virtualbox and I am at stage where its asking me for:
Try Demo Erase Disk and Install Custom Install I selected Erase Disk and Install and it's stalling, and it won't matter which one I select it stays there forever stalling. I don't see any flashing on the icons of virtualbox below the screen. I noticed it also stalled one step before this when I selected a particular version of English as well, I got around that by clicking another language. Ram set at 4GB Virtual HD set at 100GB |
The installer does have a warning that running Elementary in a virtual machine is not recommended. Parts can run slow or stall. Regardless it installed (no encryption) and ran successfully for me using 4GB RAM and selecting EFI in the setup.
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Securely erasing a virtual disk that expands automatically may lead to unpredictable behaviour, including the erasing taking literally forever. In other words: there's no reason to erase anything before installing on a virtual machine. |
There are several other installers like Mint that use the words "Erase Disk and Install" but I do not think they actually preform a secure erase.
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I think most installers simply wipe the existing partition table and create a new one while formatting a file system on each new partition when "erase disk and install" is selected. |
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I tried Try Demo and Custom Advanced and neither when to the next step after I pressed Enter, stalled again. |
Virtualbox does not have a BIOS. There is an EFI checkbox under system settings. The install process did seem to take longer the a typical distribution even on my system with a SSD.
I also maxed out the processors and video memory. |
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ATA VBox Harddisk /dev/sda and I see an unchecked box unused with 8BG (should I check this?).At bottom left is a button labelled Modify Partitions. |
Selecting the ERase disk option in your attempted VirtualBox install of Elementary should have no effect on your hard drive or any OS on it. The quote you posted is in reference to installing to partitions with data on them and formatting will erase any data on a partition filesystem formatted.
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Are you absolutely certain my host hd won't be affected if I go ahead with and select Elementary Erase Disk within vb? |
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https://askubuntu.com/questions/4998...irtual-machine https://www.quora.com/Is-it-safe-to-...irtual-machine Third opinion below. Do an online search and you will get the same answer. If you do the Custom install option, you will have more control over what you want to do. The Erase disk is a default and you won't really get any options. |
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