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Installing VirtualBox guest additions in Mandriva 2010 Spring

In this blog post, I have documented via screen capture how to install Mandriva 2010 Spring. I haven't explicitly mentioned that it was being done in VirtualBox guest machine as it does not really matter much, at least for the most part not unless you have a hardware that is not supported by the distribution out of the box. Mandriva installed VirtualBox guest additions by default but using OSE. [timus@localhost bin]$ /usr/bin/VBoxControl -v 3.1.8_OSEr61349 What's nice with VirtualBox is that it is progressing at a very quick pace, releasing an update almost on a monthly basis. Majority of the changes since 3.1.8 are small enhancements and bug fixes. You have two options in keeping current, using OSE version or PUEL version. In this post, I will document updating guest additions based on PUEL. Online repositories are not setup by default in Mandriva, I believe this is a conscious decision to detect the best connection where the user is located. To setup the software online

Screen capture tour of Mandriva 2010 Spring installation

Mandriva 2010 Spring was released July 8, 2010. It comes with kernel 2.6.33 (2.6.33.5-desktop586-2mnb), KDE 4.4.3 and Firefox 3.6.6. It actually comes with tons of applications. Its a pretty good distribution, I particular like the functionality where it removes any unnecessary packages during the installation. I haven't seen this in Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, PCLinuxOS, Mint, OpenSUSE nor CentOS. What follows is a series of screen captures installing this distribution. Figure 1. Boot menu Figure 2. Language, this will be the language that will be used by the system. Figure 3. License agreement, of course click Accept to continue if you are happy with the agreement. Figure 4. Timezone, this will be used to show correct local time. Figure 5. Allows you to select the correct time, on some machines the BIOS can be set to localtime or UTC. Figure 6. Select appropriate keyboard for your system. Figure 7. Start of the Wizard for installing the rest of the system. Figure 8. Part