[H-GEN] Linux distributions

[Russell Stuart]

On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 14:30 +1000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> I thought I would give Debian a trial (I am currently using Ubuntu  + 
> xfce) so I tried to install debian-6.0.5-amd64 in VirtualBox but it 
> bombed out when trying to install software. Anyone know if there is a 
> problem with this version of debian or with installing on VirtualBox - 
> it's probably just me :(

I don't know if there is, but I run Debian under kvm on a regular basis.
Kvm doesn't have a pretty GUI like Virtual Box, but I never had it fail
to do what is says on the box.

In your case these commands should work:

  HDD_SIZE=4096  # Size of HDD in MiB
  dd bs=1M count=1 seek=$(($HDD_SIZE - 1)) </dev/zero >debian-6.0.5.img
  kvm -hda debian-6.0.5.img -cdrom debian-6.0.5-i386-netinst.iso

Make sure you have hardware virtualisation enabled in the BIOS, and
either yourself in the kvm group or run kvm as root.