Cannot Install Slackware in VirtualBox
Cannot create the machine folder Slackware 64-13.37 in the parent folder /home/brian/VirtualBox VMs.
Please check that the parent really exists and that you have permissions to create the machine folder.
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This is the pop-up that appears when I try the first step in installing Slackware on VB. I had to go into terminal to make the directory using sudo... It seems that i'm not allowed to edit any files in the file manager, but only if I go to terminal and use "sudo" before everything. Also, how do I delete directories in terminal, since I now have "VirtualBox" and "VMs" in my efforts to create "VirtualBox VMs"
Also, is there a way where I can permanently edit folders without having to go to the terminal and use "sudo" before everything?
Re: Cannot Install Slackware in VirtualBox
will give you root rights until that terminal session is closed.
Sounds like your read/write settings might be screwed on your home folder?
navigate to the home folder (/home not /home/brian) and do a
edit:
have a quick look here too:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1872706
Re: Cannot Install Slackware in VirtualBox
This happened
brian@brzan:/home$ ls -l
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 32 1016 1016 4096 Sep 10 10:18 brian
brian@brzan:/home$
I am not really sure what that means.
As for that link, even though I input my username correctly, brian.brzan, it couldnt recognize it.
Re: Cannot Install Slackware in VirtualBox
Quote:
Also, is there a way where I can permanently edit folders without having to go to the terminal and use "sudo" before everything?
Code:
man chown
man chmod
Re: Cannot Install Slackware in VirtualBox
Thank you for those commands :D
Now how about this issue with VB?
Re: Cannot Install Slackware in VirtualBox
are you logged in as brian?
Re: Cannot Install Slackware in VirtualBox
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Originally Posted by
marinara
are you logged in as brian?
That is the only way to be on my desktop. I boot, login on the welcome screen, and that IS what you mean, right?
I am starting to suspect that every time I get to my desktop, I must "sudo -i" in the terminal to allow me to run any program. I do not like this at all, and there must be a way to never have to give permission to anything. Im not just talking about "sudo -i" until the terminal is closed, I mean permanently.
Re: Cannot Install Slackware in VirtualBox
did you actually read my link? Those commands were in there!
And you should NOT need to be root. You should try and get it working how it should, rather than trying to give yourself root privs all the time.
Re: Cannot Install Slackware in VirtualBox
Thread moved to Virtualization.
Re: Cannot Install Slackware in VirtualBox
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Originally Posted by
PremiumG
I do not like this at all, and there must be a way to never have to give permission to anything. Im not just talking about "sudo -i" until the terminal is closed, I mean permanently.
If we go back to your original post:
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Originally Posted by
PremiumG
I had to go into terminal to make the directory using sudo...
By using sudo when creating a directory in your home folder, you created a root owned directory - in fact, two. Nothing should be owned by root in your home. If you were unable to create a folder in the file manager in your home then, as muteXe indicated earlier, something is wrong somewhere inside your home. You need to find out what that is and fix it before even thinking of installing something in VirtualBox.
Having said all that, it's not clear from your OP whether the /home/brian/VirtualBox VMs folder was not there, or whether it was owned by root. You made a mistake when you tried to create /home/brian/VirtualBox VMs in the terminal by not escaping the space character which is why you ended up with the two folders /home/brian/VirtualBox and /home/brian/VMs. Post the output of this so we can see where you are now:
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Originally Posted by
muteXe
And you should NOT need to be root. You should try and get it working how it should, rather than trying to give yourself root privs all the time.
+1
EDIT: the output you posted in post #3 tells us that the permissions in your home folder - /home/brian - are correct and that you should be able to create sub-folders with the file manager.
Going back to your OP:
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Cannot create the machine folder Slackware 64-13.37 in the parent folder /home/brian/VirtualBox VMs.
Please check that the parent really exists and that you have permissions to create the machine folder.
I'm beginning to suspect that the sole problem was that /home/brian/VirtualBox VMs did not exist yet - one of the two possible conditions the error tells you - and that you focussed on the second possibility.