okay.... got it all taken care of. my issue was that I had photos on an ext3 file system and I needed windows to read it. I took care of it by booting into a live disk, formatting a stick to a msdos filesystem, copying the needed pictures onto the stick, chmod 777 these files, and all is good now!
On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 5:07 AM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Actually, no you don’t. > > I am familiar enough with most of the virtual machine platforms to know > that you can assign a drive or other device directly to the vm for use. In > VMWare, it’s actually pretty easy in the setup. Virtualbox has something > similar. Also, you can even dedicate a device directly to the vm, > especially if it’s on a USB port. At that point, the VM has exclusive > control of the device in question. Also, as for direct filesystem access, > this can be easily achieved using an external drive for the filesystem you > wish to use (including but not limited to having it as bootable media, > setting up the filesystem type and various other features. Honestly, > though, if you want, you can backup your windows machine, install linux, > and then use a VM to host windows. That is what I did from late 2004 on, > using an older AMD X2 processor, plenty of internal drives and even setting > up a virtual bridge. I had windows 2k on one instance, openBSD on another > (as the system firewall and even assigned an external interface to it > directly). When I got done, I had a machine with a linux host, 5 virtual > machines, and lots of available processing power for all that I needed. I > even set up an NFS volume, and also a PXE boot server. Certainly made life > a bit more convenient with evrrything on a single machine (hardware) and 5 > or 6 remote machines in the house, all being PXE booted. I haven’t really > done much of this in the last half decade, but it shouldn’t be all that > hard to get back into it. My only difficulty with doing everything like > this at the time was some accessibility issues that required a small bit of > sighted assistance to get around certain setup issues. > > -Eric > From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Virtual Machine > Engineering Dept. > > > On May 21, 2024, at 8:02 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > > wsl won't work. I need to have access to an optical drive. So I need to > wait until I can get a dedicATED LINUX BOX. > > On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 10:22 PM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> Um, >> >> Given you are on a windows box, wouldn’t it be easier to run VMWare or >> some other virtual machine platform? I do that here on my OS X system when >> I need linux (and ORCA screen reader). Sure, macports (the unix and linux >> like ports software library) can be useful without having to deal with a >> VM, but X desktops aren’t accessible with the built in screen reader and >> ORCA is not in the macports library. :( So, even though I am stuck on a >> 2012 Mac mini (and I don’t have the funds for upgrading), I can still use >> most of the latest available (and accessible) X desktop items and ORCA from >> inside the VM (including latest LTS versions of Ubuntu) It also means I >> don’t need to create a bootcamp partition for the other OS, although that >> can sometimes be more useful than a VM. >> >> As for windows, too much is hit and miss on that platform accessibility >> wise for me to use it reliably. Sure, the NVDA screen reader is open >> source, but doesn’t work with everything and JAWS costs about $100 a year >> for a license and also doesn’t work with everything. That is basically why >> I avoid windows unless I have no other choice. >> >> The only issue I have with apple products is that the EFI has no >> accessibility whatsoever (in fact, none of the available hardware anywhere >> on the market for computing has accessibility on the EFI). So, if I want to >> convert my old Mac mini into a dedicated linux machine, I would have to >> have sighted assistance to do so (a non starter here). And yes, I have even >> proposed to the EFI consortium the use of BrlTTY in the EFI as an >> accessibility option (it is, after all, an embedded linux). Yet, I see no >> response from them at all and I have tried every year since 2010. Guess we >> blind computer techs don’t mean squat unless we can bring a lot of money to >> the table. Now, if I knew the full in’s and out’s of how the EFI is >> installed, configured and compiled, then it wouldn’t be hard to create my >> own version with a built-in braille and speech interface. That would >> provide a Fiat Accompli to the industry in general and allow many more like >> me into the full IT fields without having to demand more reasonable >> accommodations. Ah well, I have diverged from the original subject a bit, >> but it is, at least, minimally related to this thread. >> >> Anyway, since windows support for Unix services is a bit proprietary, why >> not just go with a VM and call it good? >> >> -Eric >> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Engineering and >> Development Dept. >> >> >> On May 21, 2024, at 11:18 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss < >> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >> >> well, I'm stuck in a world of windows now. but I gots to use linux so I'm >> doing wsl. How do I get gui to work: I ran apt update/upgrade/xinit but it >> responds with: >> >> _XSERVTansmkdir: Mode....X11-unix should.... 1777 >> _XSERVTransCreateListener: failed... >> _XSERVTransUNIX...:failed >> _XSERVTransMakeALL... failed... >> etc.... >> >> So could someone help me get x going until I can get a beloved linux box >> again? >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-:
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