Today when I start my virtual machine in vmware it doesn't work as expected. My virtual
machine does not load or give a command prompt and is not allowing me to enter any text. It just babbles the following:
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
/dev/sda1: clean, 48333/153376 files, 308817/5012992 blocks
I press ESC and get a different screen saying Ubuntu 10.04 that appears to be loading but never stops. I press ESC again and it goes back to the other screen, and will alternate back and forth if I keep pressing escape, or F3.
I log out and log back in again. Then it works fine. But it's amazing how I panic in the few minutes before I try that simple troubleshooting step!
In other news, I am still grasping the concept of the sandbox / remote desktop / virtual network environment as distinct from the virtual machine. Why can't the virtual machine also run the sandbox / remote desktop / virtual network environment? Having both is like having two computers, one to network and one to do everything else. And since they are both virtual and I have one actual computer, it's like having 3 computers. Why 3? Because the OS's can't all run on one machine? Or because that's 2 to ruin while still having a 3rd to spare?
One thing that was cool was that the virtual machine offered to hook up with the printer when I plugged it in while using the vm. It made it seem a little less...virtual. Not that there's anything wrong with virtual, I mean, some of my best friends....
OTHER ACTIVITY NOTES
I tried each of the prompts below:
$ less /etc/passwd
$ less /etc/group
$ sudo less /etc/shadow
Each time, it performed the task but then ended with (END) and no command prompt. I had to click out of the vm and reset my machine to get a command prompt again. What's that about? I feel like I'm missing something very rudimentary here...
Solution: press q. I guess it's simple. NOW, anyway.
Also, I learned that shift+pg up / pg dn scrolls up and down, and the up arrow repeats a command. (Probably skipped that accidentally in the work I sailed too quickly through on my camping trip, trying to focus on commands while hotelgoers babbled in the lobby and squirrels ran under my bench. Hotel lobbies are not ideal hotspots for students.)
machine does not load or give a command prompt and is not allowing me to enter any text. It just babbles the following:
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
/dev/sda1: clean, 48333/153376 files, 308817/5012992 blocks
I press ESC and get a different screen saying Ubuntu 10.04 that appears to be loading but never stops. I press ESC again and it goes back to the other screen, and will alternate back and forth if I keep pressing escape, or F3.
I log out and log back in again. Then it works fine. But it's amazing how I panic in the few minutes before I try that simple troubleshooting step!
In other news, I am still grasping the concept of the sandbox / remote desktop / virtual network environment as distinct from the virtual machine. Why can't the virtual machine also run the sandbox / remote desktop / virtual network environment? Having both is like having two computers, one to network and one to do everything else. And since they are both virtual and I have one actual computer, it's like having 3 computers. Why 3? Because the OS's can't all run on one machine? Or because that's 2 to ruin while still having a 3rd to spare?
One thing that was cool was that the virtual machine offered to hook up with the printer when I plugged it in while using the vm. It made it seem a little less...virtual. Not that there's anything wrong with virtual, I mean, some of my best friends....
OTHER ACTIVITY NOTES
I tried each of the prompts below:
$ less /etc/passwd
$ less /etc/group
$ sudo less /etc/shadow
Each time, it performed the task but then ended with (END) and no command prompt. I had to click out of the vm and reset my machine to get a command prompt again. What's that about? I feel like I'm missing something very rudimentary here...
Solution: press q. I guess it's simple. NOW, anyway.
Also, I learned that shift+pg up / pg dn scrolls up and down, and the up arrow repeats a command. (Probably skipped that accidentally in the work I sailed too quickly through on my camping trip, trying to focus on commands while hotelgoers babbled in the lobby and squirrels ran under my bench. Hotel lobbies are not ideal hotspots for students.)
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