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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 :)