First, Ubuntu has a talking installer, and I'm not sure where you got the impression that it didn't.
When the installer starts, hit ctrl+super key+S. Secondly, Sonar is based on Manjaro, which is based on Arch. At the end of the day, Sonar is kind of a spin on a spin. At the core rock bottom of the kernel, it's Arch. Unfortunately, Arch is not listed as one of the OS's, and selecting either Other or Other 64 bit isn't helping. I can't select in the Linux category of OS's Other 3.0 Kernel, or Other 3.0 kernel 64 bit, as I'm not totally sure what the Gnome version of Sonar uses. I didn't download the Nate version. One thing however I noticed is, it's defaulting to building the VM with an 8GB SCSI hard disk. I'm wonderring if that may be part of my issue right there. I think Sonar requires at least 20GB for optimal performance. I could be wrong though. Plus, I thought most drives now adays are SATA, not SCSI. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. [email protected] Phone: (704) 256-8010. ----- Original Message ----- From: Carter Temm To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 7:36 PM Subject: Re: VMWare Fusion and Sonar? Hi, I don’t happen to know that much about this specific Distro of linux, but may be able to help. For one, what is this based off? For example, Vinux is based off ubuntu, so I can easily select ubuntu as an option in fusion if I want to use Vinux. For me, however, I’ve stayed with mainstream distributions, such as Ubuntu and Debian. The installations for those are perfectly accessible as well. Sure they don’t have a talking installer at boot, but that’s to be expected On May 4, 2016, at 5:54 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <[email protected]> wrote: I'm making this a separate thread, as this really has nothing to do with my other problem I was having. Has anyone had success with the most up to date version of Sonar GNU Linux getting it installed within VMWare Fusion? I can't put it on my Windows machine, as it's a live mission critical work system, and so I can't chance botching up that PC in any way. This is why I bought Fusion. Whereas most people wanna get Fusion so they can run Windows, I actually wanted it so I can test different builds of Linux. Anyway, being that Sonar is not really a distro in and of itself, I mean, it is, but not really. The kernel is based off Manjaro Linux. I got the ISO, and then in Fusion, I told it to install another OS from an image, then browsed to the ISO. This worked just fine. When it asked me what OS I was using, I went to the browser, and to Linux. I didn't see Manjaro in there, so I therefore went to Other. Under other, I had two options: other, or Other 64 bit. I've tried both. Once I do this, save the VM, then it starts to boot, the image boots just fine, I get the first little menu where you just wait, and eventually the Sonar image will load, and Orca comes up speaking the installer. Unfortunately, at this point, that isn't happenning. Once the menu goes away, it's hanging and going no further. I sat here for almost an hour and a half waiting for the dad blame thing to load, and it won't. I'm quite sure someone! out there has got! to have tried getting this to work on Fusion aside from me. I just need to know the necessary steps to get Fusion to fully load the thing, and let me install it without it hanging. Being this is the MacVisionaries list, do realize up front that I'm not asking for you all to tell me how to install Linux once I get into the installer. Now, off list, if you all wanna give me a hand, then by all means, I will take all the help I can get with this, and will do so very gratefully, but on list, to keep this on topic, all I'm asking is, how do I set Fusion in general, and how do I configure the VM individually so that it will let the Sonar installation succeed. According to About this Mac, this is OSX 10.11.4, and is a Mac Mini, Late 2012, 2.5GHZ Intel I5, 8GB ram, 500GB hard disk with 199.38GB available. No weird partitions, no Bootcamp, nothing. I don't even think I have the recovery partition. I think a while back when restoring from a Carbon Copy Cloner backup, I accidentally blew it up. Whoops? I'm using the USB full sized white aluminum Apple keyboard which includes the numeric keypad. This is not the USB and bluetooth Magic keyboard. This doesn't do bluetooth. It's literally just the standard Apple full sized USB only version. Anyway, so, there's the hardware. I'm totally at a loss. Any idea? Chris. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. 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