At 15:22 24/01/2011, Bram Gadeyne wrote:
Dear Christophe,
I have also noticed that VirtualBox has problems with Ubuntu 10.10.
Or Ubuntu 10.10 has problems with VirtualBox ;-).
I would suggest you try installing it using wubi. It will look as if
you have installed Ubuntu in dual boot but in fact you can remove
Ubuntu from windows like you would uninstal every other program.
Surfing the net I also found one solution that might work.
VirtualBox has some guest tools that you can install. Maybe you can
boot VirtualBox in live CD mode and install these guest tools in
there. Then You can try and install Ubuntu afterwards.
Thank you Bram and (off-list) Wouter,
I was finally able to get through the installation process: after
suspending the process I did not remove Ubuntu from VirtualBox (which
was what I did the first 3/4 times) but simply restarted it from
inside VirtualBox. This time I made sure that my network cable was
already plugged in before starting Ubuntu (otherwise the installer
did not seem to detect the network connection) and that I used the
mouse instead of the arrow keys to select the keyboard. The
installation completed in a normal fashion.
(After shutting down and restarting Ubuntu, the system displayed the
Try/Install Ubuntu screen again and I had no access to my user
account. This was confusing but it appears that I should raise this
issue on another mailng list.)
Best regards,
Christophe
With kind regards
Bram Gadeyne
2011/1/24 Christophe Strobbe
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]>
Hi,
I tried installing Ubuntu 10.10 in VirtualBox 4.0 on Windows XP SP3,
but the installation stalls each time at the keyboard layout screen.
I use English versions or UI for all my software, but the machine I
want to install this on is a Dell Precision laptop with a Belgian
keyboard. The "Figure out keboard layout" function suggests "France"
in the left-hand side of the screen, but without updating the list
of keyboards in the right-hand side (where I get "Turkmenistan" and
"Turkmenistan Alt-Q"). The Back and Forward buttons turn grey and
the spinner just keeps spinning as if something ended up in an
endless loop. The only option I can see is to suspend the process
and try again, but I have done this several times by now...
(I used the following options in VirtualBox:
Base Memory: 768 MB
Fixed-size storage: 8 GB
I then pointed VirtualBox to the Ubuntu 10.10 ISO image on my hard
disk (I though that should work).)
Is this a known problem? Is there a solution? Searching the Web did
not give me any clues.
Best regards,
Christophe Strobbe
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