Blackwolf wrote:Welcome to the forum.
Strange you had that error-though 8 would be ok.....maybe try a 16 ?
Forgive me for not posting the fix here on the central forum but I have a tutorial on the sister site in
OzTry that & I will duplicate my post in the How To section here & link back to it in the next few days.
Blackwolf - thanks so much for the welcome and your suggestions.
I don't have a 16 and your tutorial is just complex enough to strike a tad of doubt in this newb as to his skills.
The way I've been using virtualbox is to create a machine with a guest OS, mount a thumb drive formatted FAT32 within the machine, and use the OS's installer. This method has worked with a couple dozen or more distros both related to Ubuntu and not. This has also worked fine with three distros larger, by a gig or so, than Ultimate Edition, with both ubuntu 9.10 and windows XP as hosts and three brands of thumb drives.
The error message I've been getting on a vbox Ultimate Edition 2.7 in the installer's partitioning section is specific that I need to go back and create a root partition of at least 8.1GB before continuing or the installation will fail. (BTW, I chose the continue option once and sure enough, it failed at around 64%.) I go back and my drive can only be made 8036MB so no go.
OTOH, I have been successful installing UE2.7 on an 8 within vbox using "create startup usb" in the usual manner, and by using the Ultimate Edition Unetbootin. But unetbootin is live, when what I want is Ultimate Edition installed on a thumb drive as if the thumb was a HDD. The create startup usb is closer to what I want except for opening with a "press any key to continue" screen, then the language list minus countdown so must be entered manually, and next the Ubuntu menu list which also requires an enter. Awkward.
I'll get a 16 someday and would appreciate any further thoughts on this you may have had.
Thanks again. Ultimate Edition is quite the masterful distro, is it not.
Mike