Hi:

I downloaded Arch Linux and I haven't be able to select the Arch .iso image file for some reason.

When I attempt to choose a virtual hard disk file and click on my Downloads directory (which is where the Arch .iso is) the directory opens but appears empty.

Attached; are screenshots of what I have going on.

How can I select the Arch .iso file?

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You need to point the CD drive, shown as "Empty" in the screenshot and marked by the icon of a CD disk, to the Arch *.iso file.

Highlight the CD drive item with the mouse, then browse to the Arch *.iso.

I always drop in on the ide. (add to that is) Put the iso above the empty one or delete the empty one.

The gui has a goofy way where it lets you add two different things in the same place. One is new controller and other is device/drive.



Generally you don't select an existing .vdi unless you got a pre-made appliance.

Most time I create a (virtual) hard drive that will fill up local space as needed.(grow vesus pre-allocate) For example. A 150G virtual hard drive at start is almost no size on host. As you need space in the client the virtual drive will expand.

You can pre-allocate the space in some cases to help odd behavior. Some OS's won't easily install on a growing drive. Rare.

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Thanks frankbell! I found it-

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Goofy indeed!

Thanks jefro!-

Not sure what to do here at the root prompt in VBox; as I am not familiar with Arch Linux.

I read a good portion of the Arch Linux Documentation but I'm going to have to find complete
documentation on "How To Install Arch Linux in Virtual Box" to get it installed.

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Here's a very good video to follow along with in order to install Arch Linux in Virtual Box.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XLIw7Skq04

For almost all uses a virtual machine is a real machine.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide


In an odd twist, this iso image is a hybrid image. It could have actually been mounted as a virtual hard drive. It would have been easier to use it in a normal install however.

What makes it a hybrid image?

I agree, it would have been easier to perform a regular install to a HDD rather than VBox.

Once Arch Linux is installed and running properly; I'll let you guys know.

Taking a break:-

No, I meant that using the iso as a hard drive versus using it as a cd image.

I use vm's all the time. They are fantastic, easy, almost impossible to mess up host, fast, fun, easy to move. blaa blaa blaa and so forth and so on.

A hybrid image came out a few years ago. The image offered by many distro's is some cd/dvd image or so it seems. In fact most of them have been converted, edited and some tweaks added to allow one to copy it to a usb flash/hard drive or other media as it is without any changes. It would then allow the user to boot to this media. Common way is to use dd command. You can use rawrite and other image tools usually and dd for windows.

Well Gentelmen,

Arch Linux is installed but I'm at a loss for a GUI.

I'll read the documentation in 'General Recommendations'.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ecommendations

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Yep. You may wish to install a gui. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...user_interface

virtual machines also some times have special video so you may need to match virtualbox to client's driver as opposed to matching your hosts driver to client.

Yes, I'd like to have a GUI-

Thanks for the link.