I've yet to try VB in Windows - not sure my ancient XP equipment could handle the excitement, to be honest.
OE, Hope I am not trying to 'teach Granny to suck eggs' by this post.
Re the businesscard.iso - It's a minimal Installer for Debian - Used by Raspberry Pi digitoy wallers.
I saw this last year [On YouTube tutorials for the Pi] and had a quick (look and play when messing about) foray on my first installation of VB after getting my new Mobo.
Current iso dir:-
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/
Tis only 46Mb, initial download.
This will download it:-
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-6.0.5-i386-businesscard.iso
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Further update/progress on Oxie's 'Linux shenanigans'...
I could not sort out "a couple of errors with guest editions on boot up" for the Oxie_Pi - So I did another install in VB with success [including Guest Additions].
A couple of points, I downloaded the 'businesscard.iso' [46Mb] again, and the netinst.iso [191Mb]. When tried the biggie it could not detect a disc drive, it wanted the driver!! - I left it at this point as presumed it was down to VB that could not 'probe' my system - as would be the case on a full 'normal install' - I could be completely wrong about that oc.
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If you do decide to install [I did make notes from a YouTube Video], the following may help:-
Leave proxy blank.
After the 'Popularity Contest' (Say No, I assume you will), use 'Spacebar' to uncheck all.
It auto removed the 'Installation Media'
After loggin in, su to root and run:-
apt-get install lxde xorg
After buzzing off to get that lot [Net activity did stop a few times for quite some time during the process, I assume due to mirror servicing others], unpacking and installing then completes...
Now run:-
apt-get xserver-xorg-video-all
exit [logout root]
startx
shutdown and 'reboot'
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I took a snapshot [being ultra cautious], then went for 'InstallGuestAdditions' - Assume you know how, if not the guy on the tutorial had a novel way of doing it - let me know if you need this.
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If you want a really minimal installation use an app called 'apptitude' - if not then search for synaptic, download/install - you know the rest....
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Screenshot, showing probs with Oxie_Pi..
VBox_add_Fail.jpg
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df outputs, both standard install...
Sizes
Debian 1.62Gb (1.7)
Mint13 3.38 (3.55) - does have many more apps tho'
I do like the partitioning of Debian, looks very Unix like...
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teddybear@oxie:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 330215 138579 174587 45% /
tmpfs 517200 0 517200 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 512760 176 512584 1% /dev
tmpfs 517200 0 517200 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda9 2913876 101108 2664752 4% /home
/dev/sda8 238986 6183 220464 3% /tmp
/dev/sda5 2879612 758912 1974424 28% /usr
/dev/sda6 1412048 308220 1032100 23% /var
/dev/sr0 50942 50942 0 100% /media/cdrom0
teddybear@oxie:~$
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And for Mint:-
teddybear@ted-VirtualBox ~ $ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 7315148 3330928 3617272 48% /
udev 505508 4 505504 1% /dev
tmpfs 205104 892 204212 1% /run
none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none 512760 80 512680 1% /run/shm
teddybear@ted-VirtualBox ~ $
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An Oxxxie scylabub - Found UserManual pdf in Docs Dir of VB, didn't know it was there!!
Still a lot to learn OE, am winding down for Hols, come end of week...
Cheating now as posted from FF :^O
Oxie...
