On Mon, Sep 11, 2023, 05:06 John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> wrote:
> > I spent two hours trying to get Virtualbox to recognize either the > optical drive or a USB drive where I had installed the Live Debian 12 > ISO that I downloaded. I finally succeeded at getting the virtual > machine to use the optical drive, although I failed with the USB drive. > . Not saying that what you try to do (boot ISO from USB stick in VM) should not be done "damn it!" - BUT - it is certainly not the easiest way to install stuff in VM, as you have found. The way to go is to: * add optical drive to vBox * load the .iso file to the optical drive in gui or using command line * boot from the virtual optical drive with .iso inserted. Hope it helps, Tomas >
