Hi Jerome, On Jul 27, 4:57 pm, Jerome Fillioux <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tino, > > allright, hope you finally succeeded in what you wanted to do :) > I wrote you a personnal mail few days ago, about some of your > questions, but never had a reply from you. > hence I wonder if you ever received it ? >
Ah.. I just saw it after reading your post here.. I apologise(!!) - my email wasn't configured the way it should have been, thus your reply was forwarded to the wrong email address.. I thank you for your reply. I moved on since asking the above mentioned password-question(came back to a working backup I had). I did keep the vdi in case you return to me, to try a suggested solution, which I did right now and still - no go. I wonder what is the reason.. but it's not the keyboard qwerty vs. azerty issue (though when read your reply I thought 'how silly of me not to think about that option myself'.. but it did not work, sadly). thanks again :) best, tino. > cheers, > Jérôme > > On 27 juil, 10:22, tinoD <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Jerome, > > > Thank you for replying :) > > > On Jul 26, 9:34 pm, Jerome Fillioux <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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 : > > > well, at the time when being a complete beginner (which I still am, > > but plus about two weeks of playing around and getting stuck and > > learning, and doing some more mistakes, and learning, and so on... > > which I'm actually happy about, learned a lot, [despite the > > frustration I felt/expressed a few times], much with the very-much- > > appreciated-help of people in these lists and forums :) ) - > > anyway, at the time I wasn't sure whether this is a reasonable > > solution or what should be done in such a case.. > > therefore I asked the experienced ones to learn best practices and get > > corrections in the places I do mistakes.. > > > I also posted the same question in c.o.l.setup. > > Posting here the link rather than adding short descriptions of the > > suggested solutions since I feel they better stay in the original > > responders' words, along with their emphasizings, and since I feel I > > do not wish to make mistakes in explaining the solutions (being after > > all > > anewbie):http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.setup/browse_frm/thread/... > > > >https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox#SharingFoldersBetween > > > Host and > > > Guesthttp://blogs.sun.com/tao/entry/virtual_box_shared_folder_between > > > Thank you for the links! > > > and thanks again for finding this thread and answering.. appreciate > > it :) > > > best, > > tino. > > > -- > > tino. > > > > On 15 juil, 23:04, tinoD <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > Have anotherVirtualRails question.. as a reminder - I'm aNewbie- > > > > both in RoR and even fresher in Linux.. > > > > > [Have aVirtualRailsguest 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.virtualb... > > > > ) > > > > 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 anewbie:) ).. 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 anewbieI 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]. 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