[14:29] <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.
[14:32] <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
[14:34] <mustmodify> Hm... I seem to have it. That was less-than-intuitive.
[14:43] <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
[14:45] <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
[14:46] <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
[14:47] <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.
[14:48] <mustmodify> virtual console 4
[14:48] <mustmodify> must be tty 4
[14:48] <mustmodify> ok
[14:48] <mustmodify> hm...
[14:49] <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)
[14:50] <cjwatson> Probably 0 => 10 as well but it's a long time since I bothered with virtual consoles higher than 6 :-)
[14:51] <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.
[14:52] <cjwatson> People mostly don't bother now that we have fancy graphical environments, but they're still useful in more constrained settings.
[15:03] <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.
[17:17] <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?
[17:18] <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
[17:19] <cjwatson> ctrl-w ctrl-y in nano to go straight to the end, IIRC
[17:20] <mustmodify> oh nice. No space left on device. I gave it 2GB!!!