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You mean as in cd1 and cd2 during the installation? Well it's better to just gave the dvd but just replace the iso image when printed to change the cd by the installer, as if you were changing the physical media.
You mean as in cd1 and cd2 during the installation? Well it's better to just gave the dvd but just replace the iso image when printed to change the cd by the installer, as if you were changing the physical media.
Ah ok, so use the DVD iso instead of all of the individual isos?
And from the sounds of it, it sounds like Virtual Box will have no problem working with the DVD iso correct?
Sorry if these questions sound a bit dumb, trying to get my Linux chops back up to speed. I have worked with VMWare/Windows where I work, however I want to start working with Linux again.
you don't set it up under virtualbox. You need to appreciate the levels of demarcation - what is relevant to what. The virtual guest doesn't know it's a guest, it doesn't know it's being given iso's, it's just reading a cd like normal. Similarily the host system does not know it's being used to install a linux distribution, it just knows it's got a guest to which it is emulating a cdrom file form an iso. Changing the iso for the installer is no different to changing it once the guest OS is fully installed etc.
I have in the past added a second/third cd/dvd drive then mapped one iso into eachso cd 1 was sr0, cd2 was sr1, etc. I don't think I ever had to use 5 but it seems like it should work.
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