ISO

[bross]

Is there a way once you get a Linux system all running the way you want to be able to create an ISO of it from VirtualBox?

I have a setup for a CS50 class I'm going to take and they don't have an iso for it.

Thanks
Bob

[mpack]

Why would you want to create an ISO? An ISO is just an image of a CD. Just copy the VDI - which is an image of a hard disk.

[bross]

Then if ISO is not needed I'm not sure how would I install your VDI stand alone without VRBox?
It's my understanding an ISO is needed to install to a hard drive and they usally need to be put on a CD/DVD
to do this.

A Computer Science course I'm starting the 15th has a pre-configured Fedora setup just for the class using VRBox. I was looking
to install the setup stand alone on an extra laptop I have so I would not need to run it on my Ubuntu desktop.

Thanks
Bob

[mpack]

No, an installer application is needed if you want an experience like a setup CD. Creating an ISO image of anything will not by itself make an installable package. You can however make an image of the hard disk using a disk imaging tool, and "restore" that image onto a target PC (physical or virtual). The difference between this and an installer is that the imaging method takes no account of hardware differences between source and target, so the guest OS itself would have to be flexible enough to cope with the hardware changes. I'm not a Fedora user, so I can't tell you how flexible it is.

[bross]

Fedora installs, but the course has made a custom install for VBox using Fedora that it would take a long time to install Fedora and then all the packages source code for the course and other changes was that I was hoping there might have been a way to use the VBox image created.

Oh well. I guess I'll have to use the desktop then.

Thanks
Bob

[mpack]

I was hoping there might have been a way to use the VBox image created.

? There is. Like I said, you can copy the virtual PCs disk with Acronis or CloneZilla or any other suitable disk imaging app. The solution is not the image, it's the app that goes with it to restore the image onto a new PC.

Of course, if all you wanted is another identical VirtualBox VM, then all you would do is clone the VM using the GUI. However I understood you to mean that you want to copy the Fedora image onto something else, e.g. a physical host.