Lone Coder: VirtualBox on Vista with a Gentoo Guest

[Rajinder Yadav]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Jamon Camisso
<jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Ken Burtch wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 20:55 -0400, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> As I wrote at the end of the article, it took an hour to install Fedora
>> and OpenSolaris.  And it took a week to install Gentoo, looking up the
>> right commands and settings through Google,  So, on that basis, the
>> Gentoo install was 35 times longer and more complicated, and 35 times
>> the cost.
>
> The question was would a bare metal install have taken longer or would it
> have been about the same time? e.g. is there something specific about
> VirtualBox that requires more work.
>

Ken, bumping up the question I and Jamon had about VirtualBox, see above.

>>> 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.
>>
>> Because of its nature, Gentoo has no installer or setup program.
>> There's no alternative except to use the shell and to use commands like
>> "fdisk" that I haven't otherwise needed to use in years.
>
> They have an installer and have had for some time. A number of their
> releases have a livecd that do all the work for you. No fdisk needed.
>
> Jamon
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