On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:39:14 Nick Rout wrote: > I am running virtualbox on a windows xp machine with slax linux as guest. > > windows host is running 1024x768 which sounds pathetic but I am > comfortable with it. > > slax client starts at 1280x1024, which means its in a scrollable > window. Its a pain in the proverbial. > > For the life of me I cannot figure out how to adjust the size that > client will be. The only "display" setting seems to be the ram > allocated to the disply driver. Should I just reduce this so that it > thinks it cannot draw such a big screen? > > slax is booting from an .iso. >
A stab in the dark since I don't use virtualbox, but can you set the resolution as a linux boot option? In other words just as the .iso starts booting, type: linux vga=773 I use this technique with VMware Server. Tom Munro Glass
