Lone Coder: VirtualBox on Vista with a Gentoo Guest

[Rajinder Yadav]

Ken Burtch wrote:
> My latest Lone Coder column, very long and technical:
> 
> "Regardless if you think Gentoo is genius or madness, a manual install
> represents the ultimate challenge to boot Linux on VirtualBox.
> 
> This document assumes you have a basic understanding of setting up a
> Linux computer, such as how to build a kernel and how to format a disk
> partition. "Host" refers to the operating system running VirtualBox, in
> this case, Windows Vista. "Guest" refers to the operating system running
> within VirtualBox, in this case, Gentoo Linux. I use "gentoo #" as a
> root Gentoo prompt but your actual prompt may be a different one...."
> 
> http://www.pegasoft.ca/coder/coder_october_2009.html
> 

Hi Ken,

this is a well written article, excellent work.

Question, about when you say "manual install represents the ultimate challenge 
to boot Linux on VirtualBox."Is it really that challenging?

I've used VMWare and installed many distro on my WinXP, with custom partition, 
the process was relative effortless and quick.

So is it Gentoo that's involved to install or does VirtualBox makes it so, or do 
you just like to command line it like a guru =) ... I compared the steps to 
install Ubuntu and Debain, and I never had to drop into the shell to type stuff 
to install Linux, ever, not even with Slackware.

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Rajinder Yadav

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