I spent 30 minutes of my time going in circles trying to install the
Virtualbox Linux additions in Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.4
The first problem is that Ubuntu (Netbook remix is what I´m using but I
suppose the regular Ubuntu does as well) comes with the root account
disabled by default.
So you cannot "su" to root from a shell. You always get
"authentication failed" despite entering the right password. The
number of incidents if you do a Google search for "su authentication
failed" is mind blowing.... over 55,000 results.
All why? Because the error message "authentication failed" should
really say "root account logins are disabled". Now THAT would give
users some hint about what is happening.
But I disgress. Back to the issue of this post.
The second problem was finding where Ubuntu Netbook Remix mounts the
CD/DVD media.
The "new" UI in the netbook edition is confusing already, but you have
to go to System-> Disk utility (which has a hard disk as its icon), I
thought it was fdisk or other partitioning tool but no, it actually
gives information about all storage devices. Then click on Local
storage->cd/dvd drive and there you will find the mount point, which
on Ubuntu Netbook remix is just "/media".
I WAS LOOKING FOR /MNT/CDROM or /mnt/media but there are no such mountpoints. I
was further confused because /etc/fstab does not contain anything
regarding removable cd or dvd drives.
Are they trying to make linux "easy" by replacing everything old users have learned??
FC
