| mustmodify | I'm having some trouble installing Ubuntu on a virtual machine. It's not clear to me whether my issues are in setting up the machine or with the installer... though I feel like I'm qualified to install ubuntu, having done it several times in v13. | 14:29 |
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| mustmodify | When I choose "Guided Partitioning" I get to this screen and I'm not sure how to move forward. When I choose "Finish partitioning" I get | 14:32 |
| mustmodify | "No root file system is defined." | 14:32 |
| mustmodify | https://url.odesk.com/_01ANTYVZrDpFaQTLxXwVvupQsAFhbFjt2K | 14:32 |
| mustmodify | Hm... I seem to have it. That was less-than-intuitive. | 14:34 |
| mustmodify | Apparently what I did was not as effective as I had hoped. Now I have "unable to install the selected kernel.": https://url.odesk.com/_01ANTYVZrDpFZwnB4Ml7lvZyrU36awuu_q | 14:43 |
| cjwatson | Have a look at the referenced logs and see what it says there. | 14:45 |
| mustmodify | I was thinking I wouldn't be able to... there is no OS. | 14:45 |
| mustmodify | Maybe I can share that drive from the VM | 14:45 |
| mustmodify | cjwatson: What's the minimum viable drive size? | 14:46 |
| cjwatson | You can switch to tty4 as it suggests and the log is tailed there | 14:46 |
| cjwatson | Or on tty2 or tty3, you can use nano to read the logs | 14:46 |
| mustmodify | cjwatson: I'm pretty good with many aspects of ubuntu, but when you say "switch to tty4" I have no idea what you mean. | 14:47 |
| mustmodify | virtual console 4 | 14:48 |
| mustmodify | must be tty 4 | 14:48 |
| mustmodify | ok | 14:48 |
| mustmodify | hm... | 14:48 |
| cjwatson | I'm afraid I don't remember the minimal size; I reflexively use 10G for my VMs, but I'd expect the true minimum to be more like 2G or so for desktop and maybe .5G for server. Just roughly. | 14:49 |
| cjwatson | Alt-F4, but I don't know how to send that from VirtualBox. I expect there's a menu item somewhere. | 14:49 |
| cjwatson | Ditto Alt-Fn for any virtual console 1-9 (a.k.a. tty1-9) | 14:49 |
| cjwatson | Probably 0 => 10 as well but it's a long time since I bothered with virtual consoles higher than 6 :-) | 14:50 |
| mustmodify | so a virtual console is just like SSHing in several times? | 14:51 |
| mustmodify | I mean, having various consoles that are already available for use | 14:51 |
| cjwatson | You can have one login session on each, yes. | 14:51 |
| cjwatson | People mostly don't bother now that we have fancy graphical environments, but they're still useful in more constrained settings. | 14:52 |
| mustmodify | Yeah, I think there wasn't enough space. I created a larger drive and it seems to be working. It would be nice if the setup had made that more clear. | 15:03 |
| mustmodify | even if my tense was messed up in that sentence. | 15:03 |
| mustmodify | I'm getting "An installation step failed.... Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk." I'm using a virtual box machine. Is this more likely an installer issue or a vbox issue? | 17:17 |
| cjwatson | I'd guess an installer issue. Check the logs - it's not worth spending any time at all guessing based on the error you get in the installer UI. I'm afraid I have to go for dinner etc. now though. | 17:18 |
| mustmodify | cjwatson: /var/logs/system ? | 17:18 |
| cjwatson | /var/log/syslog | 17:18 |
| cjwatson | ctrl-w ctrl-y in nano to go straight to the end, IIRC | 17:19 |
| mustmodify | oh nice. No space left on device. I gave it 2GB!!! | 17:20 |
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