Virtual Linux Desktop (Gentoo/XFCE) on Windows with CoLinux

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 12:25 am

@J. Baker

The download manager of FireFox always picks the home folder to put files in (unless you change this setting). Your home folder is called 'pbuser' which is listed the file manager's tree of items (file manager is also on the toolbar). The file manager is not as easy to use as some of the other desktops (Gnome, KDE) but it is small and that is what we need to keep the space down.

In file manager, click the right arrow beside 'pbuser' to see all downloaded files. To test the file manager; navigate to the 'code' directory and double click the file named 'pbinstall.pb' - this will open SciTE and load the file. This is the code for the PureBasic installer.

If you need more power, there is also a XFCE terminal app for ultimate system access!

Its just harder to use for people just getting into Linux.

My PureBasic updater app looks in the home directory by default so you should be able to just download the file, click browse on the updater, and you should see the file there.

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 12:38 am

Shannara wrote:So in essance, it will not overwrite, otherwise kill my existing windows xp files, etc? i can run this bugger from a disk, code from the disk, etc?

It does nothing to the XP files at all (except add a virtual network driver). Once you have your virtual system runnng, everything you do in that desktop is saved to the virtual disk located in the c:\colinux directory. The virtual disk is seen as one file by Windows.

If you want to interact with the your Windows file system, just create a share on your windows disk and then mount it in your virtual system. I created an example script to show how to do this called 'mount_windows_shares.sh'. You will find this script in: '/usr/share/beach' (along with the other custom scripts I wrote to pull this system together).

Good luck and thanks again for the extra download space! Consider it a large deposit in the 1st bank of Karma. Let me know if you run into any issues.

J. Baker · Post by **J. Baker** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:11 am

I've downloaded the purebasic to "home/pbuser" and extracted the file. Then I run the installer and locate the file as mention but when I press go, it does nothing. Sorry, pretty new to this.

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:17 am

J. Baker wrote:I've downloaded the purebasic to "home/pbuser" and extracted the file.

You do not need to extract the file, just browse to the download file which should be something like "PureBasic_Linux-blabla.tar.gz". Let me know if this still does not work...

J. Baker · Post by **J. Baker** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:05 am

Ok, I think I got it. So it uses Scite as the PureBasic editor? When I opened window.pb and selected Tools/Compile it didn't do anything. At least anything I could see. Shouldn't I be able to preview the window or am i missing something. Thanks for your help Beach.

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 2:46 am

I think there are some more configurations edits to the pb properties file for SciTE I need to do. For now, press F5 to compile or press the binocular icon. If you press F5 the window splits vertically and shows the debug output. Press F8 to remove this window. Pressing the binocular icon does not show the debug window but will show the output info if it is already open

I will fix the menu items this weekend.

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 3:14 am

J. Baker wrote:When I opened window.pb and selected Tools/Compile it didn't do anything. At least anything I could see.

Ohhh... I know what the issue is now.. After updating to the full version, the examples directory is owned by root - so you can not compile there. You will need to copy the file to your home directory to compile it. You can copy and paste to your home directory using the filemanager. I hope this helps...

J. Baker · Post by **J. Baker** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 3:42 am

Thanks, that did it.

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:33 pm

Ok, this is slightly off topic but I have IIS installed and it refuses to serve RAR and 7z files, anybody know how to fix IIS so it will serve such files? It returns a 404 (even though the file is there).

J. Baker · Post by **J. Baker** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:34 pm

Shannara wrote:Ok, this is slightly off topic but I have IIS installed and it refuses to serve RAR and 7z files, anybody know how to fix IIS so it will serve such files? It returns a 404 (even though the file is there).

Did you add the extensions to the mime types?

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 6:47 pm

In IIS, I believe you need to set the directory, where the file resides, to read only - no script access. Have you changed this?

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:03 pm

Yep did this, and IIS (for win2003) doesnt care.

As for mime types, I found RAR listed in the global mime list, claiming it's a application/octet-stream, yet it refuses to serve rar files.

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 3:44 pm

Any help? I would like to provide a fast mirror, but cant until I get this bug in IIS fixed.

HAnil · Post by **HAnil** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 3:59 pm

When I pressed View X Desktop, I have a problem that "The VRMC connection could not be established because protocol version 3.6 or later is required."

What is the suggestion ?

Beach · Post by **Beach** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 6:47 pm

Looks like it has something to do with Virtual Server 2005, are you using this by chance? VMRC's ActiveX Control also uses port 5900 which is the one I use to connect to the remote X desktop.