Here is a decent video on VirtualBox :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX75Z-4MEoM
On 2024-05-22 06:47, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Yeah, just download virtual box, and your favorite Linux iso. That'll
solve all the problems.
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On Wed, May 22, 2024, 06:44 Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
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Thats... unusual... VM's you can grant access to an optical drive
directly.
On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 11:12 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss
<[email protected]> wrote:
wsl won't work. I need to have access to an optical drive. So I need
to wait until I can get a dedicATED LINUX BOX.
On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 10:22 PM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
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Um,
Given you are on a windows box, wouldn’t it be easier to run
VMWare or some other virtual machine platform? I do that here on my
OS X system when I need linux (and ORCA screen reader). Sure,
macports (the unix and linux like ports software library) can be
useful without having to deal with a VM, but X desktops aren’t
accessible with the built in screen reader and ORCA is not in the
macports library. :( So, even though I am stuck on a 2012 Mac mini
(and I don’t have the funds for upgrading), I can still use most
of the latest available (and accessible) X desktop items and ORCA
from inside the VM (including latest LTS versions of Ubuntu) It also
means I don’t need to create a bootcamp partition for the other
OS, although that can sometimes be more useful than a VM.
As for windows, too much is hit and miss on that platform
accessibility wise for me to use it reliably. Sure, the NVDA screen
reader is open source, but doesn’t work with everything and JAWS
costs about $100 a year for a license and also doesn’t work with
everything. That is basically why I avoid windows unless I have no
other choice.
The only issue I have with apple products is that the EFI has no
accessibility whatsoever (in fact, none of the available hardware
anywhere on the market for computing has accessibility on the EFI).
So, if I want to convert my old Mac mini into a dedicated linux
machine, I would have to have sighted assistance to do so (a non
starter here). And yes, I have even proposed to the EFI consortium
the use of BrlTTY in the EFI as an accessibility option (it is,
after all, an embedded linux). Yet, I see no response from them at
all and I have tried every year since 2010. Guess we blind computer
techs don’t mean squat unless we can bring a lot of money to the
table. Now, if I knew the full in’s and out’s of how the EFI is
installed, configured and compiled, then it wouldn’t be hard to
create my own version with a built-in braille and speech interface.
That would provide a Fiat Accompli to the industry in general and
allow many more like me into the full IT fields without having to
demand more reasonable accommodations. Ah well, I have diverged from
the original subject a bit, but it is, at least, minimally related
to this thread.
Anyway, since windows support for Unix services is a bit
proprietary, why not just go with a VM and call it good?
-Eric
From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Engineering and
Development Dept.
On May 21, 2024, at 11:18 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss
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well, I'm stuck in a world of windows now. but I gots to use linux
so I'm doing wsl. How do I get gui to work: I ran apt
update/upgrade/xinit but it responds with:
_XSERVTansmkdir: Mode....X11-unix should.... 1777
_XSERVTransCreateListener: failed...
_XSERVTransUNIX...:failed
_XSERVTransMakeALL... failed...
etc....
So could someone help me get x going until I can get a beloved linux
box again?
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