Re: [Hampshire] Disk images and virtualisation

On Sunday 16 March 2008 11:38:21 Rob Malpass wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim" <xendistar@???>
> To: "Hampshire LUG Discussion List" <hampshire@???>
> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Disk images and virtualisation
>
> On Sunday 16 March 2008 11:11:28 Rob Malpass wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sean Gibbins" <sean@???>
> > To: "Hampshire LUG Discussion List" <hampshire@???>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:05 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Disk images and virtualisation
> >
> > > Rob Malpass wrote:
> > >> Morning all
> > >>
> > >> Can anyone think of a reason why I'm getting disk errors when doing an
> > >> install to a virtual machine when using the same install media I don't
> > >> get errors doing a standard install (without virtualisation)? It
> > >> beats me - but I'm still learning with VirtualBox. I've googled a
> > >> few variations of VirtualBox+Slackware but not found anything.
> > >
> > > Have you mounted the cdrom at the Virtualbox admin console for that
> > > instance?
> > >
> > > Still catches me out from time to time.
> > >
> > > Sean
> >
> > Yes - it's quite a bizarre error. The Slack installer's never been as
> > user friendly as others (notably Ubuntu IMHO) so your first step is to
> > fdisk the partitions, then format them and then install the software.
> > Bear in mind that all of this comes off a ramdisk that the Slack CD sets
> > up
> > for you. The disk error actually comes during the package installation
> > section of the install. As I say, I used exactly the same disk to do a
> > simple install i.e. wipe an old machine's hdd (no virtualisation) and it
> > works fine - so there's no error on the install media.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Rob
>
> Could it be the CD drive on the host PC not handling the cd disc very
> well??
>
> When I installed my first guest onto my virtual box I got to 92% of the
> installation and it bombed out complaining it could not see the CD drive??
> I simply deleted the relevant install from virtual box reinstalled without
> a problem the second time. Have since added a second distro without a
> problem.
>
> For the record the distros were, Mint 4 and OpenSuse KDE4
>
> Tim
>
> ---End quote Tim---
>
> It's something odd - because the iso's fine (in both senses that the
> checksum's ok and indeed telling the guest to use the iso as its "CD drive"
> works fine too).
>
> But there seems nothing wrong with the host's CD drive - no errors before.
>
> Cheers
> Rob

It might be worth just downloading and burning a new slackware disk on a
different burner if you can, just to eliminate completely that side of
things.

Tim