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*NIX: Relatively Minimal Host OS for VirtualBox Use

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ewemoa:
A further option appears to be to use Knoppix -- version 7.2 appears to come with a relatively recent version of VirtualBox (something in the 4.2.x series).

FWIW, I tried the following instructions for getting Knoppix on a USB stick with some success:

  http://www.wgdd.de/2013/08/create-knoppix-usb-boot-stick-from.html

40hz:
A further option appears to be to use Knoppix -- version 7.2 appears to come with a relatively recent version of VirtualBox (something in the 4.2.x series).

FWIW, I tried the following instructions for getting Knoppix on a USB stick with some success:

  http://www.wgdd.de/2013/08/create-knoppix-usb-boot-stick-from.html
-ewemoa (May 22, 2014, 04:21 AM)
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 Thank you ewemoa! :)

Very nice! Normally I'd just use USB Image Writer or something similar. But it's always good to know a command line way to do something just in case the PC you're using doesn't have all you favorite tools installed.

I wasn't aware of that isohybrid command.

Learn something new almost every day when you're using Linux! :Thmbsup:

ewemoa:
Very nice! Normally I'd just use USB Image Writer or something similar. But it's always good to know a command line way to do something just in case the PC you're using doesn't have all you favorite tools installed.
-40hz (May 22, 2014, 06:08 AM)
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Indeed!  I tried just using dd with the iso image first without success -- not sure why that works for some things and not others.

I wasn't aware of that isohybrid command.

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It was new to me too.  FWIW, on Gentoo I found it in the syslinux package.

40hz:
FWIW, on Gentoo I found it in the syslinux package.
-ewemoa (May 22, 2014, 07:06 AM)
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Yes indeed. It's in Mint too, although I've heard it's not included in every distro's version of the syslinux package. Don't know why.

Looks like it's something worth looking into a little more too. Come see:



Huh! Build bootable EFI image??? Hmm...definitely want to play with this soon - with the verbose switch enabled. Like Tom Waite said: "What's he building in there? What's he building in there...." 8) ;) ;D

ewemoa:
Some interesting related bits at (search for isohybrid):

  http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/4957.html

As a side note:

  https://www.sabayon.org/article/uefi-and-uefi-secureboot-linux-nightmare-over

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