Revision as of 05:53, 23 November 2010

Mac OSX-F14-desktop with Virtualbox Boot USB

This is a 4GB USB that is booted on a MacBook Air with a boot helper CD

It opens a Soas-v3-Mirabelle Virtual Appliance located on a 2nd USB
This 2nd USB can be exchanged with that of another student.

This is proposed as a first solution for SL#598 Boot Helper Virtual Machine

How you can get it

Boot USB

4GB USB to be booted in an intel Mac ONLY:Mac_F14_Vbox.img.tar.bz2

Download it and decompress it (linux)

DO NOT try to build or import a Virtual Machine on this USB- It is only 4GB in size and it will fill up and be destroyed.
Use it to point to an existing Virtual Machine on a 2nd 4GB USB ONLY

dd command to copy it to your Boot 4GB USB

To Write to your 4GB USB (linux)

/dev/sd(x) BE CERTAIN THIS IS THE DEVICE ADDRESS OF YOUR USB

type mount in terminal to see device (/dev/sdb; /dev/sdc; /dev/sde....etc

root@xxx:/home/xxx/Desktop# dd if=Mac_F14_Vbox.img of=/dev/sd(x)
7831552+0 records in
7831552+0 records out
4009754624 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 1365.52 s, 2.9 MB/s
root@xxx:/home/xxx/Desktop#

Soas-v3 Mirabelle virtualbox files to put on 2nd USB

Prebuilt Soas-v3-Mirabelle 4GB USB img

Download .img file

Decompress (linux)

dd write it to a 4 GB USB (linux) -> see above

Build your own using EasyVMX!

xxx.vmx files it creates can be opened in Virtualbox 3.2 which is preinstalled on Mac F14 Boot USB

An installation of VMPlayer (free) is used to create the files we need (linux or windows)

web site that builds a vmx file to your specifications (free)

http://www.easyvmx.com/

Works fine, runs on most platforms, and has persistence

VMware Player download (free): http://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/

specified a 8 GB Hard Drive and other parameters

downloaded, in browse, the Custom vmx file as a .zip file

Decompressed the .zip file

Put CD soas-3-mirabelle.iso burned as CD in your CD Drive

Open VMPlayer and point it to this vmx file

CD boots in VMplayer application

Sugar Starts

To install to VMplayer Hard Disk:

Open Sugar-terminal:

su
liveinst
Anaconda installer opens
Initialize all disks
custom/create
/boot 200 ext4
/     6000
swap  400
Install proceeds normally
Shutdown

Copy the files created in VMPlayer (this can be used to make 4GB USB's for different students as it starts with firstboot.)

To use:

Copy-Paste all files to a 4 GB USB (fat 16 Label: MIRABELLE) and insert it into a Mac booted from the F14 MAC Boot disk with Virtualbox running

Advantages:

Portable (Student can take home and run on home Computer)

Run it on different Platforms

Boot Helper CD's

MAC SOAS-3 Mirabelle Boot DISK

soas-3-boot-test.iso (Burn this to a CD and boot with it)

Read Me First & Credits to Programmer

MAC SOAS-4 Mango lassi Boot DISK

soas-4-boot-test (Burn this to a CD and boot with it)

How it was Made

F14 Desktop USB with Virtualbox installed

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 ===Soas-v3 Mirabelle virtualbox files to put on 2nd USB===
 ====Prebuilt Soas-v3-Mirabelle 4GB USB img====
+: Download .img file
+: Decompress (linux)
+: dd write it to a 4 GB USB (linux) -> see above
 ====Build your own using EasyVMX!====

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