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Virtualbox, installing and creating partitions
« Thread Started on Apr 12, 2012, 4:18pm »

These videos are zipped files instead of streaming because of the reduced file size/bandwidth
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Video 1
Installing virtualbox
http://lin.me.uk/vids/vbox/01-vbox-install.mp4.7z
After installing vbox you must become a member of the vboxusers group

Code:
sudo gpasswd -a user vboxusers

Or "su" in terminal to become root and then

Code:
gpasswd -a user vboxusers

join the sudoers group with

Code:
gpasswd -a user sudo

You must then reboot

Video 2
If you are unsure about partitioning or have never done it before this is the perfect way of learning before you do the real thing on your real hard drives.
Multiple partitioning on a virtual machine and installing XP
http://lin.me.uk/vids/vbox/02-vbox-partitioning-xp.mp4.7z

Video 3
Installing/configuring XP and installing guestadditions
http://lin.me.uk/vids/vbox/03-inst-config-xp-guest-additions.mp4.7z

Video 4
Configuring vbox
http://lin.me.uk/vids/vbox/04-config-vbox.mp4.7z

Video 5
Firefox profiles and stardock fences
http://lin.me.uk/vids/vbox/06-ff-pro-inst-fences.mp4.7z

Sorry about the brief descriptions but it threw me in school when they brought in that joined up writing.
If anyone post better descriptions I will cut and paste into this post.

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Re: Virtualbox, installing and creating partitions
« Reply #1 on Apr 13, 2012, 12:18pm »

Thanks ukbrian. After messing with it I got both my flash drive to be recognized and correctly setup my scanner to work also.

as root:
# gpasswd -a user vboxusers (this is correct except the host must be rebooted) This makes shared folders work namely my user one with my 2 ntfs data drives.
THEN with the vm running/booted click on the devices menu item at top and select install guest additions. Then reboot the VM.
That is what makes the usb devices work. Just adding the extensions pack is not enough.

Plus I understand how to partition. In this case i would boot to live saline in vm and use gparted like your guide shows. Then I could run multiple configurations that share the same parts as it were. In my case saline as host and one working xp vm is enough when you include shared folders.
Thank You Very Much - vbox aint so bad after all 8-)

btw-That's one hell of a FF setup you have. Very colorful.
What was it you used to make the screencast? Istanbul?
Also, I had no idea you could compress mp4's. Good to know.

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« Reply #2 on Apr 14, 2012, 5:18am »

Thanks for the feedback I don't get much as my videos are aimed at newcomers and I need the direction.
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Plus I understand how to partition.

btw-That's one hell of a FF setup you have. Very colorful.

Opera were the first to develop a single page speed dial and all the other browsers copied them but Josep Del Rio took it to a whole new level when he added tabs(groups) every one who has seen me using Josep's speed dial, old hands and novices has gone on to use it.

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I am wrong about the Mozilla connection with Midori, sorry
I think Firefox has reached the end of its life and needs to be rewriten and that is what mozilla are doing with Midori but Josep's speed dial is writen for firefox using the Gecko rendering engine so needs to be rewriten for Midori's as midori uses the webkit rendering engine but that gives you the chance to extend speed dial to the next level with multiple pages not just multiple tabs. Imagine the Xfce menu with Accessories, Multimedia, System etc as tabs with the items displayed as dials that you can drag n drop.

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What was it you used to make the screencast? Istanbul?

I normally capture the video output of one machine on a second machine but it was playing up so I did these videos with xvidcap, I don't usually record audio when capturing as I find it better to string the videos together in Openshot, then as the video is being replayed in vlc or summat record a sound track with audacity then go back to openshot and add it to the video.

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Also, I had no idea you could compress mp4's. Good to know.

Thank Anthony for his choice of apps, I agree with most of the default apps he's chosen. I did have a problem with Openshot falling over tho so I had to run a later version in another distro for editing the videos.

If you go to my page "ukbrian" on youtube at the top there's a video of installing foobar into Debian that's surprisingly popular and at the bottom there's a video I made in 2010 about setting up speed dial.

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Re: Virtualbox, installing and creating partitions
« Reply #3 on Apr 14, 2012, 6:44am »

Apr 14, 2012, 5:18am, ukbrian wrote:

Thanks for the feedback I don't get much as my videos are aimed at newcomers and I need the direction.
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Plus I understand how to partition.

That was my intention, I thought a few years ago that vbox was the right place to introduce folk to partitioning with out them taking chances with their existing hard drive set up and I think Saline is the perfect Linux base for windows users to start from.
I think I need to do another video of installing vbox into a windows 7 machine and then installing win 7 into a big partition to show folk how to shrink the win 7 install to make room for Saline, my thinking being that win users are the main target for new users not distro watch where you are only poaching existing linux users.
Opera were the first to develop a single page speed dial and all the other browsers copied them but Josep Del Rio took it to a whole new level when he added tabs(groups) every one who has seen me using Josep's speed dial, old hands and novices has gone on to use it.

I think Firefox has reached the end of its life and needs to be rewriten and that is what mozilla are doing with Midori but Josep's speed dial is writen for firefox using the Gecko rendering engine so needs to be rewriten for Midori's as midori uses the webkit rendering engine but that gives you the chance to extend speed dial to the next level with multiple pages not just multiple tabs. Imagine the Xfce menu with Accessories, Multimedia, System etc as tabs with the items displayed as dials that you can drag n drop.
I normally capture the video output of one machine on a second machine but it was playing up so I did these videos with xvidcap, I don't usually record audio when capturing as I find it better to string the videos together in Openshot, then as the video is being replayed in vlc or summat record a sound track with audacity then go back to openshot and add it to the video.

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Also, I had no idea you could compress mp4's. Good to know.

Midori has nothing to do with Firefox or Mozilla, Midori is written by mostly one man in Germany. Midori is at its core a very basic design, it uses standard Linux desktop items in place of native code. For Java it has no internal java script engine, it uses the desktop JDK entirely, it uses GIO to open external programs (With a fallback to xdg-open), rending via webkit+ and the graphical interface is all done with Xfce libraries. Midori is basically what you would get if you sat down and tried to write Apple's Safari with the Xfce graphical libraries and Linux desktop technologies in place of Apple's. Mozilla uses in house code for just about everything, and it makes for somewhat of a disaster when you get down to the nitty gritty.

As far as I am aware, Firefox will be using Gecko for the foreseeable future.

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« Reply #4 on Apr 14, 2012, 7:36am »

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Midori has nothing to do with Firefox or Mozilla

Jack of all trades master of non. Thank you.

I guess that means Linux has 2? Webkit based browsers, Google's open souce one and Midori.
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As far as I am aware, Firefox will be using Gecko for the foreseeable future.

It's good to have an alternative to Webkit I think, monopolies are never good for users.

Good news it's cross platform tho.

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Re: Virtualbox, installing and creating partitions
« Reply #5 on Apr 14, 2012, 8:52am »

Apr 14, 2012, 7:36am, ukbrian wrote:

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Midori has nothing to do with Firefox or Mozilla

Jack of all trades master of non. Thank you.

I guess that means Linux has 2? Webkit based browsers, Google's open souce one and Midori.
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As far as I am aware, Firefox will be using Gecko for the foreseeable future.

It's good to have an alternative to Webkit I think, monopolies are never good for users.

Good news it's cross platform tho.

You are forgetting all the other webkit browsers available on Linux: Arora, Epiphany, Konquerer (Konquerer was the original, Apple forked the KDE rendering engine code to create webkit), various Android/Mobile browsers, Sam's Browser and I am sure even I am missing a few.

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« Reply #6 on Apr 14, 2012, 11:08am »

I'm not having a good day with my words.
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I was more thinking more of cross platform apps but I expect I'm still wrong.
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« Reply #7 on Apr 14, 2012, 1:27pm »

Awesome. I looked at screencast- python, but it was too slow about 4fps. Instanbul- so so, and recordmydesktop but xvidcap is perfect.
As for installing foobar, that is totally unnecessary. It's portable. If I had far fewer bookmarks I would use a speeddial but too much distraction all in all.

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« Reply #8 on Apr 14, 2012, 1:39pm »

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xvidcap is perfect.

I run it at 25 or 30 fps, I can't remember which.

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As for installing foobar, that is totally unnecessary. It's portable.

This old fool has been installing Wine to run it on. [image]

I have had xvidcap capturing audio under pulse by loading it with "padsp xvidcap" but I prefer to add audio later, I don't waffle on so much.

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« Reply #9 on Apr 14, 2012, 1:48pm »

You still need wine but foo runs so flawlessly that it doesn't really matter. Really foo's installer gives you the option of a portable install and tbh it is simpler and works exactly the same. Though it's many options of manipulating music files does work better in a std windows environ.
ex: wine '/home/user/Documents/Aps/1-Foobar/foobar2000.exe'
I leave all the Name fields blank with my launchers-simpler. Speaking of which, I have so many now I need a 4th bar.

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« Reply #10 on Apr 14, 2012, 7:39pm »

Virtual box is Satans daughter. Partition Magic takes care of it all....as does a USB toe.

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« Reply #11 on Apr 15, 2012, 4:28am »

I find the youtube stats for the foobar video interesting as I only posted one link and that was on this forum, since 30 Jan 116 hits.
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