This part looks like it has duplicate screen shots, but it doesn't. Things began to load and the system tried to find my network, etc. I got that error because I had Android Studio running and I was running an Android Emulator and my computer and VirtualBox didn't like running two VMs at the same time. When I did that the first time, I got a strange error that looked like the following: Yours won't be listed the first time so you'll need to click that little folder with the green up arrow and navigate to the location where your debian ISO file is located.Īfter you do that and it's loaded in the drop list, go ahead and click the button. Now, VirtualBox will prompt you for the location of your ISO. Once you complete all of that, you will see that the image has been created in the Oracle VirtualBox console. I simply name this the same name that I use for the OS. VirtualBox will create a subfolder under its folders that will contain your virtual hard disk. This is what will appear in your Oracle VirtualBox window.Īfter that, I take all of the defaults throughout and they work fine. This will start the process of creating a new Virtual Machine.įirst thing you have to do is create a name for your new OS. Start up the VirtualBox software and select the New. Go ahead and download the ISO and have it ready so we can step through the VirtualBox creation of the new Debian OS. Get the one named: debian-10.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso The second link is a direct link to the ISO that you want. The first link will get you to the overview page with the downloads at the bottom of the page. I've provided links so you can easily get it. However, I learned that you want the net installation one.

There were a lot of them listed and some spanned 3 CDs (3 separate ISOs) and I had no idea what I should select. Well, it was more difficult than I expected. It was kind of difficult to find a disk image (ISO) for Debian. While setting it up the VM in VirtualBox, I decided to document this process because there were a couple of confusing parts to getting the VM installed. NET Core SDK and Visual Studio Code so I could take snapshots. NET Core, and I needed a VM running a Linux distro so I could walk through the installation of the. I'm working on a new book, Linux Programming with.

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