[Ubuntu-be] installation problem with VirtualBox 4.0

[Jim Bauwens]

You have to deselect the iso in the devices menu, because virtualbox will
always try to boot from it.  Or you can simply disable the cd boot option in
the machines preferences.
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Christophe Strobbe <
christophe.strobbe at esat.kuleuven.be> wrote:

>
> At 15:22 24/01/2011, Bram Gadeyne wrote:
>
>> Dear Christophe,
>>
>> I have also noticed that VirtualBox has problems with Ubuntu 10.10. Or
>> Ubuntu 10.10 has problems with VirtualBox ;-).
>>
>> I would suggest you try installing it using wubi. It will look as if you
>> have installed Ubuntu in dual boot but in fact you can remove Ubuntu from
>> windows like you would uninstal every other program.
>>
>> Surfing the net I also found one solution that might work. VirtualBox has
>> some guest tools that you can install. Maybe you can boot VirtualBox in live
>> CD mode and install these guest tools in there. Then You can try and install
>> Ubuntu afterwards.
>>
>
> Thank you Bram and (off-list) Wouter,
>
> I was finally able to get through the installation process: after
> suspending the process I did not remove Ubuntu from VirtualBox (which was
> what I did the first 3/4 times) but simply restarted it from inside
> VirtualBox. This time I made sure that my network cable was already plugged
> in before starting Ubuntu (otherwise the installer did not seem to detect
> the network connection) and that I used the mouse instead of the arrow keys
> to select the keyboard. The installation completed in a normal fashion.
> (After shutting down and restarting Ubuntu, the system displayed the
> Try/Install Ubuntu screen again and I had no access to my user account. This
> was confusing but it appears that I should raise this issue on another
> mailng list.)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Christophe
>
>
>
>  With kind regards
>>
>> Bram Gadeyne
>>
>> 2011/1/24 Christophe Strobbe <<mailto:christophe.strobbe at esat.kuleuven.be
>> >christophe.strobbe at esat.kuleuven.be>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried installing Ubuntu 10.10 in VirtualBox 4.0 on Windows XP SP3, but
>> the installation stalls each time at the keyboard layout screen. I use
>> English versions or UI for all my software, but the machine I want to
>> install this on is a Dell Precision laptop with a Belgian keyboard. The
>> "Figure out keboard layout" function suggests "France" in the left-hand side
>> of the screen, but without updating the list of keyboards in the right-hand
>> side (where I get "Turkmenistan" and "Turkmenistan Alt-Q"). The Back and
>> Forward buttons turn grey and the spinner just keeps spinning as if
>> something ended up in an endless loop. The only option I can see is to
>> suspend the process and try again, but I have done this several times by
>> now...
>>
>> (I used the following options in VirtualBox:
>> Base Memory: 768 MB
>> Fixed-size storage: 8 GB
>> I then pointed VirtualBox to the Ubuntu 10.10 ISO image on my hard disk (I
>> though that should work).)
>>
>> Is this a known problem? Is there a solution? Searching the Web did not
>> give me any clues.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Christophe Strobbe
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bram Gadeyne
>>
>
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