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The last time I installed a new disk image on an SD Card for the Pi I had to use the Win32DiskImager util on Windows. Since I primarily use a Mac that took a few additional steps to get a working SD Card.
Looks like now though someone has scripted the steps to make this easier on a Mac. I used the RPiSDCardBuilder util and this seems to work fine.
Use username of the remote share. You’ll be prompted for the password for the remote user:
mount -t cifs -o user=username //ip_address_of_remote_server/sharename /local_mount_point
The steps to prepare a CentOS guest for installing the VirtualBox Guest Additions are outlined here, but since it references a few other pre-req steps, here’s a list of all the steps I took to get all the dependencies installed before you can install the Guest Additions:
Install yum-priorities (http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities):
yum install yum-priorities
Install RPMForge (http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge):
wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.*.rpm
Install dkms:
yum --enablerepo rpmforge install dkms
Install dev tools and kernel development:
yum groupinstall "Development Tools" yum install kernel-devel
I’m not sure what the deal is with Fedora 18 & 19 but the performance running under Virtual Box in Windows, regardless of how much memory you throw at the VM, really is unbearably slow. I had 18 installed for a while but haven’t used it for several months. I just fired it up again and it’s unusable. Downloaded 19 and started the install and it took a couple of hours. I might have something else going on on my laptop that slowing down the performance, but as it is it’s unusable.
I was looking for a RHEL derivative other than Oracle Linux since I wasn’t prepared wait to download the massive disk images which are several GB (really?!). I just realized though that CentOS is RHEL compatible. Very cool. Will download and see if it’s more usable under Virtual Box.