[Live-demo] Getting rc2 running in VirtualBox on OS X 10.6

Dane Springmeyer blake at hailmail.net
Sat Feb 27 17:31:03 EST 2010


Juan,

Thanks! I clearly did not pay close attention to the file extensions.

Also, I added the mac osx command:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Live_GIS_Disc_Quick_Start&diff=45737&oldid=45736

Dane


On Feb 27, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio wrote:

> Hi, Dane,
>
> You have not downloaded a ISO image but a virtual machine. The right  
> instructions are a few lines below the ones you have followed:
>
> cat image.7z.0 image.7z.1 image.7z.2 > image.7z
>
> then uncompress the .7z file.
>
> On linux:
>
> # install
> sudo apt-get install p7zip-full
>
> # uncompress
> 7z x <filename.7z>
>
> That will give you a 10 Gigabyte file (!!) which you should be able  
> to open with Virtual Box.
>
> Regards,
> Juan Lucas
>
>
> --- On Sat, 2/27/10, Dane Springmeyer <blake at hailmail.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Dane Springmeyer <blake at hailmail.net>
>> Subject: [Live-demo] Getting rc2 running in VirtualBox on OS X 10.6
>> To: live-demo at lists.osgeo.org
>> Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 9:16 PM
>> Hey All,
>>
>> I just tried to downloading the http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/3.0-rc2/ 
>>  and get it
>> running in VirtualBox on Mac OS X 10.6
>>
>> I followed the http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Quick_Start
>> instructions
>>
>> and did:
>>
>> wget -c http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/3.0-rc2/arramagong-3.0-rc2.7z.0
>> wget -c http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/3.0-rc2/arramagong-3.0-rc2.7z.1
>> wget -c http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/3.0-rc2/arramagong-3.0-rc2.7z.2
>>
>> cat arramagong-3.0-rc2.7z.0 arramagong-3.0-rc2.7z.1
>> arramagong-3.0-rc2.7z.2 > arram.iso
>>
>> Then tried to load that iso in VirtualBox (the latest -
>> 3.1.4 r57640), but I get this error:
>>
>> 'error VERR_VD_RAW_INVALID_HEADER opening image file'
>>
>> Anyone know what might be going wrong? I've downloaded 3
>> times and the files look like they are arriving fine:
>>
>> $ ls -l
>> total 15787008
>> -rw-r--r--  1 dane  staff  4041471477 Feb 26
>> 19:47 arram.iso
>> -rw-r--r--  1 dane  staff  1572864000 Feb 21
>> 05:23 arramagong-3.0-rc2.7z.0
>> -rw-r--r--  1 dane  staff  1572864000 Feb 21
>> 05:24 arramagong-3.0-rc2.7z.1
>> -rw-r--r--  1 dane
>> staff   895743477 Feb 21 05:24
>> arramagong-3.0-rc2.7z.2
>>
>> Thanks for any ideas.
>>
>> Dane
>>
>>
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