Root Access

Sajad

12:00

I can not see "dialog" ..

tereško

sigh

Sajad

your mean is this ^ ?

tereško

dont touch the dropdown

click on CD icon

Sajad

@tereško aha, so what ?

@tereško aha ok

choose virtual optional Dist file ?

tereško

.. I am starting to realize that VBox is not all that "newbie friendly"

yes

and find the ISO

Journeyman Geek

12:02

@tereško no less so than other VM software

unless you wanted him to use vmware player

Anmol Raghuvanshi

i cant locate iso image in folder

Journeyman Geek

if that's still a thing.

Sajad

@tereško ok

tereško

@AnmolRaghuvanshi you are tolling :P

@Sajad so, did you find the correct file?

Anmol Raghuvanshi

no

tereško

12:03

the one with i386

@AnmolRaghuvanshi well, where did you extract it?

Anmol Raghuvanshi

yup

Sajad

tereško

@Sajad you had to extract it with 7zip

to get the ISO out

sigh

Journeyman Geek

.....

(sorry, this is just.. slightly painful to watch)

Sajad

@tereško ahaaa, I did the 64 bit !

I will do it now

tereško

12:05

@JourneymanGeek remembering youth?

Bob

@JourneymanGeek more than slightly painful

especially considering I got completely and utterly ignored for about 15 mins

Journeyman Geek

@tereško: I didn't have someone puppying me through the whole process ;p

learns by sticking his nose into things ._.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek It is. Though it did get gimped with the most recent release.

tereško

@JourneymanGeek I learned about virtual OSes about 5 years after I had installed my first several linux/bsd distros

Journeyman Geek

@tereško: for me about the same time

@Bob: the initial release was pretty gimped.

Bob

12:07

@JourneymanGeek The previous-to-current one was reasonably good.

Sajad

Journeyman Geek

Couldn't create your own VMs!

Bob

Missing snapshots, and that's about it.

Sajad

@tereško ok I did it ... So ?

Bob

Current one is... not as good.

Journeyman Geek

12:07

@Bob: mostly on KVM at the moment

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Yea, that's what I'm running.

Wanted to set up LXC/LXD, but no support yet.

tereško

@Sajad that should be all for settings (you can dig through them later)

Journeyman Geek

@Bob I wanted to keep my VMs as portable as possible ;p

Sajad

@tereško ah ok

tereško

save the settings and press "start"

Sajad

12:08

so my virtualbox is ready now ?

@tereško ok

Journeyman Geek

HIT THE MAGIC BUTTON!

and see if the magic smoke escapes.

Anmol Raghuvanshi

:P hahaha

tereško

now the fun part begins :?

Bob

For the love of god, go enable VT-x first.

It's literally a 5 min process, if that.

Journeyman Geek

Also, go work out how to enable VT-x

Bob

12:09

Shut down, enter BIOS config, find option, toggle it.

If option doesn't exist, then you can say it's not possible.

Though I am wondering... did you mute me, @tereško?

Sajad

@tereško yes, it is something like CMD (on windows)

Journeyman Geek

else

tereško

@Bob it's enabled by default

Sajad

It gave me a warning, it says "you should turn on automatic record keyboard"

Bob

@tereško No it's not.

Sajad

12:11

what is its point ?

Bob

I can tell you it most definitely is not enabled by default on all machines.

Journeyman Geek

@tereško: if it was he'd have 64 bit usable

Bob

The desktop I'm sitting at now had it disabled.

Journeyman Geek

@Sajad: read back

Bob

My old HP laptop had it disabled.

Journeyman Geek

12:11

It improves performance a lot

Bob

In fact, of all the machines I've used with Nehalem+, I'm currently going something like 50/50 with VT-x enabled by default.

Anmol Raghuvanshi

creating process

tereško

@Bob do you want to tell him how to visit bios?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: I don't think I've ever needed to do it manually

tereško

it is not necessary now

Sajad

12:12

Journeyman Geek

@tereško: hm. I wouldn't walk anyone through a vbox install

I;d say go crazy.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Bit me in the arse when my desktop had an, ah... accidental CMOS reset.

Journeyman Geek

@Sajad: at this point, go make a mistake. Or a correct choice

Bob

@tereško Not absolutely necessary, but it will save some grief down the line.

Journeyman Geek

You need to navigate though a series of twisty mazes all alike...

Sajad

12:13

@JourneymanGeek :-) you are a risky man !

Bob

Quite a lot of grief if he actually ends up using the VM for any significant period.

Journeyman Geek

@Sajad: That's the whole point of a VM

Sajad

:-)

Bob

And laptop firmware is usually dumbed down enough that there aren't that many options to tweak.

Journeyman Geek

You can do this again (and you should, without help)

tereško

12:14

yeah, you cannot really break anything

Bob

No overclocking options to accidentally stumble into.

Journeyman Geek

and learn to use the other options.

Sajad

@JourneymanGeek how you are a moderator :-)

Journeyman Geek

snapshots for example is awesome.

Anmol Raghuvanshi

i am making good progress :P

tereško

12:14

if you fuck it all up. you delete the VM an make a new one

Journeyman Geek

@Sajad: Won an election ;p

Sajad

@JourneymanGeek :-)

Journeyman Geek

They gave me a t-shirt (well two) a hat, some stickers and a rolled up newspaper.

Anmol Raghuvanshi

@JourneymanGeek you are awsme ;p

Journeyman Geek

;p

Sajad

12:15

@tereško so, My virtualbox is ready ?

Bob

As far as walkthoughs: shut down. Then turn the power back on and tap F2, F12 and "." as many times as you can.

tereško

@Sajad do a quick read if you are unsure freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bsdinstall-start.html

@Sajad it's ready for you to start installing OS

Bob

If/when the firmware config comes up, browse through the menus with arrow keys, look for one that says VT-x.

Preess space (or enter) to enable it.

Press F10 to save and exit.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob: or as I say. MASH ALL THE KEYS

Bob

If you can't find the option, press esc to cancel.

Sajad

12:15

@tereško you told BSD is a OS ...

tereško

yes, it is

Journeyman Geek

@Sajad: Sure

You do need to install windows

same here

tereško

3 mins ago, by Sajad

you have just now put a CD in your virtual computer

Sajad

@tereško how ?

Anmol Raghuvanshi

hahah you are making me continously laughing @JourneymanGeek

tereško

12:17

9 mins ago, by Sajad

this is how you put it in

Sajad

@tereško ah !!

@tereško I think this is a perfect tutorial

tereško

and the ISO was that "CD"

lol

Anmol Raghuvanshi

hahah

Sajad

Ok, now my OS is BSD now, right ?

Journeyman Geek

The OS running as a VM is BSD

Anmol Raghuvanshi

12:18

your os needs a doctor

Sajad

@AnmolRaghuvanshi ha ? :-) what should I do now

?

Journeyman Geek

More precisely freebsd, as opposed to say openbsd or something

@Sajad: when in doubt, read the docs.

Sajad

@JourneymanGeek I don't know english very well, but ok, where is the docs ?

Journeyman Geek

._.

tereško

this is how it is structured

Journeyman Geek

12:20

@Sajad LMGFY

freebsd.org/doc/handbook

Sajad

ok

Journeyman Geek

(seriously, learning to google is the most important thing you will ever learn)

tereško

the "host operating system" is your windows, virtualbox is the "VMM"

Sajad

@tereško I see

tereško

now that the CD is in, you should pick the "multi user mode"

Sajad

12:22

@tereško I press enter ?

tereško

make a guess :P

if something goes wrong, you close the virtual machine and start it again

Anmol Raghuvanshi

:P

Sajad

@tereško ok

tereško

you should end up in this state:

Sajad

@tereško exactly !!

and I clicked on it, the blue page hide and it is black now

tereško

12:25

oh, btw, to get the VBox to release your mouse, you have to press right Ctrl key

@Sajad you picked "install"?

Sajad

@tereško no ! I wanted to take a shotscreen and it hided !

tereško

lol

Sajad

right Ctrl key, what is "right" ?

tereško

press "print screen" couple more times

@Sajad you are aware that your keyboard has two ctrl keys

Sajad

oh !! it comes back to blue :-)

tereško

12:28

:)

use keyboard to navigate the "blue" interface

Sajad

aha !

tereško

now, try installing

if you do not understand something, try checking in the manual first: freebsd.org/doc/handbook/using-bsdinstall.html , then, if you are still lost, ask a question

Sajad

owwwww !!! when I press right ctrl, my mouse goes in to virtual box :-) !!!

Anmol Raghuvanshi

lol

tereško

@AnmolRaghuvanshi first time I used virtualbox, I had end-task it to get my mouse back

(I have this habit of not reading instructions)

Anmol Raghuvanshi

12:31

same i have done ;p

Pandya

@ssnobody Will your addon work on this version of Abrowser (pre-installed web browser for Trisquel GNU/Linux) which is built from firefox 38?

Sajad

@tereško how click on 'install' ?

tereško

with "enter"

magic keys are: enter, tab, space and the arrow keys

Anmol Raghuvanshi

first time i installed red hat on virtual box @tereško it's also pretty good

Sajad

@tereško ow ! worked correctly

I press enter again ?

tereško

12:35

do you need a different keyboard layout?

Sajad

@tereško I don't know what is that mean

I just want to use of my laptop keyboard

tereško

@Sajad well, here is example of "armenian phonetic layout":

Sajad

@tereško aha

em

tereško

I kinda suspect that you have a standard US keyboard

Sajad

I don't know I need to it or not

@tereško why ? ;-)

tereško

12:37

this is US keyboard layout

Sajad

@tereško Image not found

Bob

Probably should've started off with a more beginner-friendly OS.

Some will do layout detection by asking you to press specific keys.

tereško

@Bob he wants to buy a VPS this week

Sajad

@tereško yes

Bob

@tereško And?

You can trivially reinstall a VPS OS.

Sajad

12:38

@tereško my keyboard is exactly like this photo

Anmol Raghuvanshi

wtf

tereško

@Sajad so, that's the US layout

so keep the default

Sajad

@tereško ok !

tereško

and yes, there is an iranian layout

Sajad

set host name ?

tereško

12:40

free choice, it gets important only when you are in a network with multiple servers (your virtual machine is isolated)

Sajad

ok

tereško

un-select games and ports, you wont need them

Sajad

ok

tereško

("space" key is used for selecting)

Sajad

I knew it before you told me :-)

tereško

12:42

then it will want to set up the network card

Sajad

I press enter ?

tereško

yes

Sajad

please select a network interface to configure ..

?

tereško

there should be only one listed

Pandya

@ssnobody yes, finally it works well with Abrowser 38 on my Trisquel GNU/Linux!

thanks a lot.

tereško

12:44

and you should choose IPv4 with DHCP (you wont need IPv6)

Pandya

thank @ssnobody very much

Sajad

tereško

1 min ago, by tereško

there should be only one listed

Sajad

which list ?

there is just Ok and Cancel

Pandya

The original size for FSF is 25.57 KB (26,187 bytes) and with add-on enabled that is now : 7.69 KB (7,878 bytes).

Sajad

12:46

@tereško I press enter ?

Pandya

Also proxy settings are now ok (configured)!

tereško

@Sajad here is how it might look for other people: img.serverfreak.com/support/freebsd/f14.jpg

Anmol Raghuvanshi

yes then chose ipv4 and then dhcp

Pandya

@JourneymanGeek thanking to you also for providing help during this issue (nodejs,jpm etc)

Sajad

I installed DHCP and IPv4

would you like to configure IPv6 for this interface ?

tereško

12:48

you won't need it

Sajad

"ok" or "no" ?

ok

tereško

(make a note for yourself to learn what IPv6 is .. it's good to know)

Sajad

I know what is it

tereško

.. I'm going by the "worst case scenario" here :P

Pandya

Bounty awarded @ssnobody

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Anmol Raghuvanshi

12:50

worst or even more :P

Sajad

@tereško it is hard ?

tereško

just "enter"

Sajad

ok

tereško

then it will ask from where to download rest of the files

Sajad

@tereško and what I do ?

tereško

12:52

pick other the official site, or one from a country that could have a better connection

I would go with "main site"

Sajad

please enter the URL to an alternate FreeBSD mirror

@tereško ah, then I just press enter ? don't pick 'other' ?

tereško

:)

probably

Sajad

:-)

tereško

if you ask professors in your university, they might know a local Iranian mirror for freebsd

Sajad

ok, wait

tereško

12:55

but it's not like you can just call one over :)

Anmol Raghuvanshi

@tereško have you written any book or blog on frameworkk bad pratices or something like that...??

tereško

about 10 years ago .. it dead and forgotten

Anmol Raghuvanshi

10 yrs , what book or blog ???

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