El 29/03/12 00:07, Robert Benjamin escribió:
Now with the start button it is good for a few seconds and then I get this error: FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted. Hope there aren't any more error messages left. LOL Bob
Well I got win 7 as guest up and running. Did the same yesterday in one try with Ubuntu 11.10. Here, the FATAL error continued to show. Checked the settings and found out that it was not pointing to the win7.iso Fixed that and had to do /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup again. Then, start arrow and all is well. No FATAL error. Not sure why it went away but I'm sure you people do. Hope this is of some help.
You now know why you get the fatal error message: when you click the green arrow _for the first time_ after setting up a new virtual disk, it will stop and ask you where that that is down to experience.the boot medium is. just like when booting from a live cd or boot cd. The default is the dvd drive of the host computer. If, like yourself, you have not burned it to dvd then simply point the installation at the iso you have downloaded. You do that in the first dialogue you get after hitting the green arrow. that seems to be the bit where we were failing. I'll try and get a screenshot of it and put a link in this thread for others.
Thanks again for all the help and patience you have given me as I struggled to learn about this and Linux. All your time ,effort and patience is much appreciated. No problem. Shall we mark it as solved? BTW, anyone know why in Ubuntu is installed one one try as opposed to here. Just curious. Bye.
The procedure for installing Ubuntu is the same as for installing win 7. If you are saying that you installed it successfully at the first attempt, then I'd say it was down to experience. BTW, how does the Ubuntu performance compare to the win 7 performance? On my best machine, Linux graphics crawls along compared to windows, the latter being just about as fast as running natively:-(
Bob Well done, L x
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