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Echoes88
April 10th, 2012, 06:24 PM
HI!
I have got a problem with my laptop. It's a lenovo n200 with 2 ghz c2d and 2 gb ram. I have native windows vista on that. and tried to install ubuntu 11.10 within virtualbox, and it stops in a certain point during the installation. I tried it for a few times, no succes.
It used to work with older version (8.10), so i dont know why it is.
Thanks for the help.
Echoes88
josephmills
April 10th, 2012, 06:27 PM
I there is this ubuntu server ?
have you checked the md5sums of the iso ?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM
download a new one and try that one.
oh did you add yourself as a user to vbox ?
Echoes88
April 10th, 2012, 06:56 PM
i didnt even know such program exists:roll:
im checking it right now
It's a desktop version.
oh did you add yourself as a user to vbox ?
what do u mean by that?
roelforg
April 10th, 2012, 07:59 PM
i didnt even know such program exists:roll:
im checking it right now
It's a desktop version.
oh did you add yourself as a user to vbox ?
what do u mean by that?
Note: It's a lot easier to read your posts if you use the [ quote ] (no spaces but else they hide) tag.
I think he meant if your user has permission to run vbox because.
And yes, it should work, did it a few times myself on windows before installing ubuntu, other then that i forgot to make the hd big enough the first time (i advise like 8 gb as minimum size), no problem.
josephmills
April 11th, 2012, 03:20 AM
you can find out all sorts of things about groups and users permissions at these links
Permissions
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermissions
To add a user to a group:
This can be done many ways but here is one.
open terminal (ctrl+alt+t)
We can see who you are by entering in the command
whoami
We can now add who you are into the vbox group
By Enter in:
gksudo gedit /etc/group &
We then go down to the line that looks like this
vboxusers:x:###:
### should be a Number.
We add are name to it so it looks like this
vboxusers:x:125:joseph
you replace joseph with your name the one that you got from whoami
save the file and close.
Congrats you are now in the vbox users group
I hope that this helps :)
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