Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Take 1

 Take 1: VMware and DVD ISO images

After downloading the 3 DVD’s that make up a full install of Debian, I created a new virtual machine with a 60GB hard drive.  The virtual machine was given the .ISO file of the 1st DVD, and booted.

Installation went well, until the 2nd DVD was requested.  I changed the .ISO file the virtual machine had mounted, but for some reason this was not detected.  As a result, I suspect the install was incomplete.  This suspicion was compounded when functions like sudo failed to work.

Through manual fiddling, I got this to work eventually, but who knows what else is wrong? As a result of this, I plan to re-image the virtual machine, using a LiveCD.


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