Installation Procedure

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• Procedure: Open the website [1] and go to virtual box download link [4] there you will find many links one of which will be of the virtual box open source edition and other will be of sun virtual box. Go to the sun virtual box download link [5]. There two kinds of setups will be available for windows operating systems one for 32 bit platforms and other for 64 bit platforms. Other options are also available at [1] we will use the 32 bit setup. After downloading install Virtual box 2.1.2 through following steps: i.

Open the setup file by double clicking the icon. Following screenwill appear:

ii. Click on the “Next >” button. Following Screen will appear:

iii. Select the message “I accept the terms in the License Agreement” and press the “Next >” button as shown below:

iv. Following screen will appear and by default the sub components will be

checked.

v. Slect the locationwhere you want to install virtual box by clicking the

“Browse” button:

vi. Following screen will appear when we click “Next >”:

vii. Click “Next >” and you will get:

viii.Then click the “Install” Button and installation will begin:

ix. Then you will receivetwo consecutive “Software installation” warnings and a “hardware installation” warning click “Continue Anyway” Button:

x. Then you will receive the installation completion window:

xi. Click the “Finish” button and virtual box 2.1.2 will be launched automatically:

xii. Now the second part of our experiment starts i.e., installing Linux (Ubuntu) using Virtual Box. xiii.Click the “New” button and you will receive following window:

xiv.Click ”Next >” Button and you will receive following window on which you will specify the name of your Virtual Machine:

xv. Then click “Next >” and On this screen you will specify the virtual memory for the virtual machine:

xvi.Then click “Next >” On this screen you will be asked to make a Virtual Hard

disk: xvii.Click “New” A window will appear and click “Next”::

xviii.On the next screen you will be asked to choose the storage type from two options i.e., “dynamically expanding storage” and “fixed size storage”. Choose “dynamically expanding storage

xix.Then click “Next >” On next screen you will be asked to specify virtual disk location and size. Specify it

xx. Then click “Next >” You will be given the summary and click “Finish”.

xxi.Then you will receive a window and click next:

xxii.Then you will receive the summary of creation of virtual machine and click “Finish”:

23.You will receive the above displayed window and some resources will not be assigned to the virtual machine.

24.So, assign them to the virtual machine. For example CD-ROM is Mounted like this:

25.Check the “Mount CD/DVD drive” box and click “OK”. The rest of the resources such as Floppy, Audio, Serial Ports, USB, Shared Folders and Remote display can also be mounted by similar procedure. After Mounting

all of them we receive the following window:

26.Now we insert the “Ubuntu 8.04” CD and press the “Start” button and you will receive ”Windows Security Alert” and Click the “Unblock” button to

continue: 27. After that you will receive the language selection screen and select “English” language option

. 28.Then you will get a window and select the option “install Ubuntu” and an auto mated installation will start.

29.After the installation you will recieve a window to select the language. Select the language and press “Forward”

30. Then you will receive a time zone selecting screen select your timezone by moving cursor on the map and press “Forward”.

31.Then you will be asked for keyboard layout pressed forward.

32.Then screen will appear for preparing disk space. Select Guided-use entire disk option.

33.Then you will be asked about personal information i.e., Name, ID, Password and name of computer.

34.Then it will display the summary and I click “Install” button.

35.Installation will begin:

36.At completion you will be asked to restart computer. Only virtual machine will restart and not the host operating system.

37.At start we will be asked for username

38.And for password

39.After this you will get a desktop and Ubuntu will be ready to use:

So Linux is installed virtually on our operating system i.e. Windows XP 2002 service pack 2

References Sun Microsystems www.sun.com 2. Virtual box www.virtualbox.org 3. Operating System Concepts Seventh Edition Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne 4. www.sun.com/software/products/virtualbox/get.jsp 5. www.dlc.sun.com/virtualbox/vboxdownload.html 6. Ubuntu install screenshots www.linuxdynasty.org/images/stories/distros/ubuntu/pinstall2 .png 7. www.Ubuntu.com 8. www.whatis.com 9. www.linux.org/apps/ 10. Syed Awais Haider [email protected] 11. www.foogazi.com 1.

12. www.about.com 13. www.vmetc.com 14. Windows

logohttp://www.idlsys.com/images/Microsoft/windows.logo%5 B1%5D.jpg 15. Virtual box logo http://ixombie.com/wpcontent/uploads/2008/05/logo_vbox.png 16. Linux logo3 http://www.linuxscrew.com/wpcontent/uploads/2007/09/linux-logo.jpg 17. http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/electronics/ 18. Dr. Junaid Qadir [email protected]

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