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I am running Anti-X 8.2 in VirtualBox on a Mac host. For some reason, this time around, I can't mount the "cd" so I can install guest additions. I am getting this error message...

when I click on the icon for the cdrom I get this twice

Error <i>org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.UnknownFailure</i>

then I get... Directory doesn't exist!

I am new to Linux and Anti-X in particular. I have no idea what's wrong. Help?

thanks

From the VirtualBox user manual:
First you must install dkms in antiX, so open the root terminal (menu>applications>applications>terminal emulators>x-terminal as root) then

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apt-get install dkms

Then in VirtualBox 'Devices' menu, select 'Mount CD/DVD-ROM', click on 'Add' and find and select the 'VBoxGuestAdditions.iso' then click on 'Select'.

Usually in antiX it should be mounted in /media/cdrom, in this case you would (still in the root terminal)

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cd /media/cdrom

and

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sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run

then you may have to do this too

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/etc/init.d/vboxadd setup

and reboot the virtual machine (antiX).

well, what you said made sense to me, however, I still get the original error message. for some reason, although I can see the icon for the cdrom, if I click it I get the same message.

btw, you wouldn't happen to know how to emable pcman's root function?

btw, when I try and mount the .iso for the guest additions using the mount app fron the control center, I get a message in the terminal that says... special device cdrom does not exist

For the pcmanfm thing, open the root terminal and type

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visudo

then add in the end a line like

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username ALL = /usr/bin/pcmanfm

(change username for your user name)

secipolla wrote:For the pcmanfm thing, open the root terminal and type

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visudo

then add in the end a line like

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username ALL = /usr/bin/pcmanfm

(change username for your user name)

thanks, I will try that as soon as I reinstall Anti-X

PCLinuxOS LXDE is tiny too and comes with VBox guest additions already installed. Maybe it would be nice to try.
I read somewhere that after you install it you must login with password 'root'.

secipolla wrote:PCLinuxOS LXDE is tiny too and comes with VBox guest additions already installed. Maybe it would be nice to try.
I read somewhere that after you install it you must login with password 'root'.

I did have that at one point. Worked well. I decided to try simplyMEPIS for the time being.

hello and welcome to antiX! i don't know if it is the same problem, but i had that error because my cdrom was seen as /dev/cdrom1 and in fstab was mounted as /dev/cdrom. if this is the case, open run and type:

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gksu leafpad /etc/fstab

and add a "1" to the cdrom line to read something like this:

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/dev/cdrom1 /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0

save and then reboot.