macfags.comInstalling gOS in Parallels
Posted on November 15, 2007Today at MacFags, we’re going to try an experiment. Everybody and their blog has written about the hawtness of gOS, so I’m going to give it a try in Parallels. In the name of science, of course. I downloaded the ISO via Bit Torrent (using the fabulous Transmission by the way) at record speeds (for my crappy cable connection anyways). Boot up Parallels, make some basic settings decisions (Typical Install, Other Linux, more power to the virtual machine), select the ISO file and away we go.
So far so good. We’ve got ourselves a nice little start up screen. Let’s select “Start or Install gOS”.
A little text mode before it starts up the graphical environment, that’s cool, always good to keep tabs on what’s happening.
And crap. After attempting to start up the graphical environment it spits this message out. For those with wonky eyes, it says: “The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds. It is likely that something bad is going on. Waiting for 2 minutes before trying again on the display :O.” For the record, the display server was shut down four times. But who’s counting.
I tried again using the Safe Graphics mode, and had the same problem. Anybody out there actually get gOS to run in virtual yet? Or should I stick with ignoring my other Linux VMs, instead of ignoring my gOS VM?
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This is the same problem encountered when installing Ubuntu on Parallels. If you google around you should find the solution (it’s long-winded and boring and more importantly I can’t remember it…).
You’re right, I tried installing Ubuntu in Parallels the other day, because a friend of mine is considering getting a Linux laptop, but wanted to see what the OS is like. I’m guessing this has something to do with Parallels, and not gOS.
I’ma try Fedora Core soon, see if I have luck with that. I always liked FC better anyways.