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Old 04-03-2008, 10:06 PM   #1
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How Do I Install Vitualbox CLOSED SOURCE ??


Where do I go AND how do I install the CLOSED VERSION of virtualbox?
 
Old 04-03-2008, 10:59 PM   #2
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Use the link in my signature and download the one for your distribution. It should then be a matter of double clicking the file you have downloaded to start the install process.
 
Old 04-05-2008, 12:51 PM   #3
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{BBI}Nexus{BBI}, the links that you provided, are these for ubuntu 7.10?
 
Old 04-05-2008, 01:11 PM   #4
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Fedora 7 and Innotek VirtualBox

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{BBI}Nexus{BBI}, the links that you provided, are these for ubuntu 7.10?
Fedora 7 and Innotek VirtualBox

Although I use various flavours of Fedora my main distribution is Fedora 7. A distribution which gives me no problems after I installed ndiswrapper in order to go wireless. Something I can't say about Fedora 8.

Anyway I happened to have quite a bit of free space on my partition with Fedora 7 so I got the idea of installing VirtualBox. Why VirtualBox you would think while Fedora has this feature build in. Well the fact is that I could not get it running the way I wanted it to run.

Anyway, after installing same I wanted to install Windows XP, but the program kept moaning that there was no bootable cdrom. So I decided to try Ubuntu 7.10 which happened to be available on my disc as an ISO image. Much to my surprise I could install this distribution without any problem straight from an image. But I still wanted to install Windows XP as well so I decided to make an image of XP. I'm writing this as some of you might be interested how I went about it.
In order to be in control from the beginning I mounted the cdrom with XP manually. Then in a terminal I gave the command: df /mnt/cdrom.
The result of this command gave the following information: 1K-blocks used is 576364.
This number displays the size of the file, but 576364 needs to be divided by 2 in order to get the right number needed by count=. After dividing by 2 we get the number 288182.
So far so good and now we are ready to give the following command:
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=WindowsXP.iso bs=2048 count=288182.
After a while we have the file WindowsXP.iso ready and waiting to be installed in our VirtualBox.
Bear in mind that /dev/cdrom works for me, but this may be different for you. Also you may give the image any name you wish.

The result is that I have a fully working WindowsXP in VirtualBox. The already installed Ubunti and also WindowsXP made automatic contact with Fedora 7's wireless connection. Also activation of WindowsXP via this gateway was no problem.
 
Old 04-05-2008, 01:28 PM   #5
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{BBI}Nexus{BBI}, the links that you provided, are these for ubuntu 7.10?
Since my post Innotek has been aquired by Sun, however here is the link to download for Ubuntu: https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP...-F@CDS-CDS_SMI Or you could follow the instructions on their site and add the repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list.
 
  


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