Hi Tino, I haven't had the time to digg into this for now, but i wonder :
why not using the virtualbox "shared folders" ? is an easy way to gain access of the underlying host OS from the virtual os, including extra disk space. you can find more informations about the shared folders here : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox#Sharing Folders Between Host and Guest http://blogs.sun.com/tao/entry/virtual_box_shared_folder_between On 15 juil, 23:04, tinoD <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Have anotherVirtualRails question.. as a reminder - I'm a Newbie - > both in RoR and even fresher in Linux.. > > [Have a VirtualRails guest on VirtualBox running on a Windows Vista > (64bit) host] > > Anyway - My current problem goes as follows: > > I've been usingVirtualRails for the last week or so.. pretty quick > and with no special effort I got 13GB out of the available fixed 15GB > used (I realise a more experienced Linux user could maybe have done > what I did with less.. but I still want to know, as I feel 15 GB are > pretty limiting and don't wish to constantly keep worrying about the > capacity of my guest machine..) > > So - have found some really great tutorials out there and followed a > procedure using GParted Live CD in order to copy the existing > partition into a bigger one. > (looked into these tutorials among many > others:http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/122/1/http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=364&start=30 > ) > Anyway, my existing (smaller) partition had a primary partition > (flagged with 'boot'), with ext4 file system and in addition the HD > had an extended small partition of about 690MB and inside had /dev/ > sda5 marked with 'linux swap'.. I'm mentioning these setting by heart > now so hope I'm not using the terms wrongly (if I do - please forgive > me, I really am a newbie :) ).. Anyway - tried to copy these setting > (both the primary partition and the extended one into the bigger HD I > put as a primary slave.. yet any combination I tried (and tried a lot, > everything I could think about, moving, resizing, leaving extra room > unallocated..) - gave me an error saying (referring to the /dev/sda5 > copying only) - the source is bigger than the destination and > therefore the copying did not work.. > (I suspect it might be related to > this:http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php ) > Anyway, when I try to copy only the primary partition and resizing it > to the new bigger HD it works fine..but when I try to boot with the > new image as a primary master (after removing the smaller old vdi > file) - I get a blank black screen with a white underscore at the top > left (there's a better name to it I think.. just can't recall it > now..). > So - I did some reading.. these tutorials I mentioned had people also > having similar problems.. > I tried: 1) botting with the original image as primary master and the > new bigger one as primary slave.. it works, but I'm not sure this is > ok and being a newbie I don't know whether that's a good thing to do > and what are the consequences.. anyway, I saw some people mentioning > runing this configuration (master & slave as described) and then > running Roadkil's BootBuilder and following some additional steps > -http://www.majorgeeks.com/Roadkils_Boot_Builder_d4980.html > ) > when trying to run this file I'm greeted with this message for running > the exe file: "Unable to find an interpreter for ./bootbuild.exe" or > when trying to run the zip (from terminal that is) I get: "invalid > file (bad magic number): Exec format error".. trying to run from > Nautilus did not cause this thing to work (I did add execution > permissions since at first I seemed to have no executing permission on > this file and had different errors) > so - that did not do the work for me.. > I realise what's happening is the new HD has no boot sector.. tried to > read about GRUB but was afraid to do some more damage as I really > don't feel I understand enough right now about Linux to do this, > unless you guys tell me I should (plus maybe some guildelines which > may help a bit..) anyway, I did read but wasn't sure it was the > solution I should study and follow.. > I also tried to download Linux Mint 8 Helena CD from the website and > boot from there.. I couldn't do anything useful booting from the > Compatibility mode.. it did not have a recovery mode.. so used the > regular mode.. where the farthest I reached was to see I had another > HD containing more GB (resized to 40GB.. so saw something containing > 38GB).. but didn't know where to go from there and even how to access > it and how to repair the boot information there.. also tried to run in > this config GParted (saw the CD of Helena had it) - but for some > reason it did not run or do anything and anyway - Ifelt I was > improvising too much for my beginner level..) > > So - this is where I'm at.. pretty stuck. > > If anybody here can tell me how should this be done (if at all.. ), > I'd greatly (really!!) appreciate it.. > Otherwise, if there's no way to resize theVirtualRails partition to > a bigger one or if there's no other bigger version (perhaps from a DVD > installation and not a CD one with less things on it (like OpenJDK > instead of Sun Java for instance..) - I'll switch to a different > solution - and in which case (still I'd love to know and learn how the > problem I described above should be solved..) - I wonder if there are > any recommendations you could share.. > > I simoltaneously installed a fresh Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my VB (with > 100GB *grin*) thinking I should be doing the whole configuration and > stuff by myself now.. I'm planning to follow mainly the tutorials from > Rails Wiki -http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/getting-started/installation/linux > - and Ubuntu RoR page -https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RubyOnRails > - hoping the knowledge I've gained so far will be sufficient to be > able to do this correctly.. even these two links do not completely > overlap and there some more alternate ways I found.. so I mainly feel > insecure here and very eager to be able to go back to study RoR and > write some code as well (while learning linux and using it) > > So - hope this post was clear enough.. > I'd greatly appreciate your answers. > > Many thanks! > > Best, > tino -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
