HOWTO: Install Moblin 2.0 into Virtualbox
From blog entries on Engadget , I heard Moblin 2.0 was released. Yes, I definitely want to give it a try and see how it works. However I do not want to mess up my computer, dual boot looks silly on my X200 because I have lots of memory and P8600 CPU. I do believe run it in VirtualBox is most decent way to do so. So, this is how I do it: 1. Download Moblin 2.0 image from here . 2. Get yourself an usb key, yes, I know maybe I can hack the image to be mounted with a floppy image but sorry my VirtualBox can't do it because it's on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope 3. Write the image into a usb key, remember to umount it before do write: $ sudo umount /dev/sdb $ sudo dd if=moblin-netbook-ux-beta-20090518-004.img of=/dev/sdb 4. Create a virtual disk image which redirect the usb key to itself: $ sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/VirtualBox/HardDisks/moblin2_usb.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdb 5. run virtualbox with root permission for now, we can access the installed disk i...