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Installing minimal Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) in VirtualBox

I have been using Ubuntu for a while and I pretty much like it most of the time. It has the latest and the greatest and it looks nice too, at least that's the way I perceived it. In fact, back in Ubuntu Intreprid I played around installing a minimal Ubuntu . This time around, I would like to install a pretty much stripped down version of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, it is kind of a minimal install that still looks like Ubuntu. Install method has not changed much since Intreprid actually. Without further ado, let us get our hands dirty. Okay, download the latest minimal iso from Ubuntu . You can always download it from the mirrors, I find USC  mirror to be quite fast. While download is busy, let us configure our guest Ubuntu machine in VirtualBox. Here is what I have: General Name: ubu1004mini OS Type: Ubuntu System Base Memory: 512 MB Processor(s): 1 Boot Order: CD/DVD-ROM, Hard Disk VT-x/AMD-V: Enabled Nested Paging: Enabled Display Video Memory: 12 MB 3D Acceleration: Disabled 2D

Installing minimal Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) in VirtualBox the faster way

In this blog post, I have documented how to install minimal Ubuntu 10.04 in VirtualBox using netinstall. The good thing with netinstall is that the initial download is pretty small, around 13MB, but the total time to install the whole package takes a little longer. If you have fast pipe, you can instead download alternate ISO. This link will download a copy from University of California, Santa Barbara. Using this ISO should get you up and running quickly into a fully working Ubuntu desktop. Just for the uninitiated, boot VirtualBox guest machine using the ISO as download above. You should see a screen same a below. Figure 1. Boot screen of the Alternate installer. Select your language here, my case, I have selected English. Figure 2. This is the main, menu driven, console interface. Press "F4 Modes" here. Figure 3. Select "Install a command-line system". This should bring you back to a screen the same as Figure 2. After selecting the mode, press [ENTER] on

Installing PCLinuxOS 2010.07 GNOME on VirtualBox

PCLinux OS releases new distribution quarterly, at least that is how it looks right now. Last time, I did a screen capture of PCLinuxOS KDE . The latest release came around July 2010 (I believe it was released 08July2010). This time around I will document installing GNOME. This can be helpful for folks who are distro hoping but don't have the time yet to install it. Figure 1. This is the boot screen. It looks geeky and pretty nice. Figure 2. Splash screen. Figure 3. Keyboard layout. Select the physical layout of your keyboard not your current location. Figure 4. GDM login screen. Select "guest", password is "guest". Figure 5. This is the PCLinux OS GNOME desktop. Dark theme with applications you have come to expect from a regular full Linux distribution. Figure 6. Double-click(run) on "Install Licecd". Root password is "root". Figure 7. PCLinuxOS Installation Wizard introduction screen. Figure 8. Hard disk partitioning. Default shoul

Cannot find root file system booting Meego in Eee PC 900

First off, Meego 1.0 does not support Eee PC 900 as the processor does not support SSSE3. This is documented in the website. But that should not stop you from running it using LiveUSB. And so that's what I did. Downloaded the IMG file and copied it over into the USB using Univeral-USB-Installer. With all high hopes of being able to play around Meego, I was greeted with this message instead: -------------------------------------- WARNING: Cannot find root file system! -------------------------------------- Create symlink /dev/root and then exit this shell to continue the boot sequence bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device bash: no job control in this shell bash-4.0#: Of course, I am not RTFM :(... This link shows the instructions on how to use .IMG file and write it to a USB. And it got more useful information as well.

QNX Momentics IDE 4.6 not working in Cent OS 5.5

QNX Momentics is not officially supported not even on Cent OS 5.4 much less Cent OS 5.5. Although Cent OS 5.4 should be compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Desktop. Also, QNX Momentics 4.6 is working happily in Cent OS 5.4, but users always like to use the latest and the greatest version. Anyway, running QNX Momentics in Cent OS 5.5 shows the following screen: This issue was traced back to be caused by interface change in XULRunner which comes with Firefox browser. See this link and this link for discussion about this issue. But this is not without hope of using the IDE in Cent OS 5.5. echo "org.eclipse.ui/showIntro=false" > /tmp/noWelcomeScreen.ini cd /opt/qnx641/host/linux/x86/usr/bin qde -pluginCustomization /tmp/noWelcomeScreen.ini Enjoy! ~ts

Installing Fedora 13 in VirtualBox

Screen capture tour and installation guide for Fedora 13 on VirtualBox. This tour will focus on GNOME version of F13, Fedora-13-i686-Live.iso, this is available at Fedora website or mirror sites near you. Depending on your internet connection, this can take a while as this is a 700MB iso image. Below my VirtualBox guest configuration for F13. General Name: f13 OS Type: Fedora System Base Memory: 512 MB Processor(s): 1 Boot Order: CD/DVD-ROM, Hard Disk VT-x/AMD-V: Enabled Nested Paging: Enabled Display Video Memory: 12 MB 3D Acceleration: Disabled 2D Video Acceleration: Disabled Remote Display Server: Disabled Storage Storage Controller IDE Secondary Master (CD/DVD): Empty Storage Controller 1 SATA Port 0: f13.vdi (Normal, 80.00 GB) Audio Host Driver: Windows DirectSound Controller: ICH AC97 Network Adapter 1: Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Bridged adapter, Microsoft Loopback Adapter) Serial Ports Disabled USB Device Filters: 0 (0 active) Shared Folders None B