Re: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/11/13 07:27, Alois Mahdal wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 19:30:16 +0200 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Du, 24 nov 13, 11:45:11, Wally Lepore wrote: >>> >>> Has anyone successfully mounted a Debian .iso file directly >>> to VirtualBox? > > It's probably clear, bout just to be co

Re: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 24 nov 13, 21:27:07, Alois Mahdal wrote: > > I don't have it at hand either, but and now I'm not sure > if it was for Virtualbox, KVM manager or both it was not > so trivial as e.g. on Vmware Workstation, where it's two clicks > in menu and you choose the file. It wanted you to

Re: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/11/13 05:25, Wally Lepore wrote: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: >> On 24/11/13 01:52, Wally Lepore wrote: > > [snip] > >> choose sound and network card types, select phsyical or virtual optical >> drive (virtual uses ISO images), set network protocols. > > [sn

Re: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-24 Thread Alois Mahdal
Hello, On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 19:30:16 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 24 nov 13, 11:45:11, Wally Lepore wrote: > > > > Has anyone successfully mounted a Debian .iso file directly > > to VirtualBox? It's probably clear, bout just to be complete: the mounting part should be definitely same f

Re: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-24 Thread Wally Lepore
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 24/11/13 01:52, Wally Lepore wrote: [snip] > choose sound and network card types, select phsyical or virtual optical > drive (virtual uses ISO images), set network protocols. [snip] Yes I see that VirtualBox is apparently able to mou

Re: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 24 nov 13, 11:45:11, Wally Lepore wrote: > > Has anyone successfully mounted a Debian .iso file directly to VirtualBox? Yes, I did this in VirtualBox running on Debian, but it shouldn't be different on Windows. I can't detail the steps because it seems I uninstalled VirtualBox, but it wa

Re: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-24 Thread Wally Lepore
Hi Members, I appreciate all the installation steps, help and advice. Just downloaded VirtualBox for windows and finished installing the program. Currently in the process of creating a "new machine" (in VirtualBox). My laptop is a 32-bit OS running windows 7. I downloaded the file called Debian-7

Re: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/11/13 01:52, Wally Lepore wrote: > Hi Members, > > I would like to run Debian and test new software packages utilizing > Debian as a virtual environment. inside my Windows 7 OS. I would like to > be able to install Debian in this fashion and have the ability to > utilize a Debian GUI desktop

Re: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 23 Nov 2013, Wally Lepore wrote: > Hi Members, > > I would like to run Debian and test new software packages utilizing > Debian as a virtual environment. inside my Windows 7 OS. I would like > to be able to install Debian in this fashion and have the ability to > utilize a Debian GUI desk

RE: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-23 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
From: Wally Lepore [mailto:wallylep...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 9:52 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox Hi Members, I would like to run Debian and test new software packages utilizing Debian as a vi

Re: Installing Debian inside Windows 7 utilizing VirtualBox

2013-11-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/11/13 01:52, Wally Lepore wrote: > Hi Members, > > I would like to run Debian and test new software packages utilizing > Debian as a virtual environment. inside my Windows 7 OS. I would like to > be able to install Debian in this fashion and have the ability to > utilize a Debian GUI desktop