Installing Antix 19 on Virtualbox VM, Restoring from USB

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Can anyone help or point to any resources to help with this I’m running out of ideas?

Basically trying to be careful and test stuff on a VM before committing to real machine. I have an iso of the running machine and was hoping that when I go for a reinstall I can just use this iso which has been used with the live usb maker so that I can install the system as is. So in the virtual machine it boots ok (no option to install straight off from boot menu) I can login so tried as some have suggested elsewhere to use terminal and do maninstall.

All goes well with maninstall until I get to the point where it says unable to create user passwords (I don’t want to do that accounts already in image? So just give a random name like test). Has anyone managed to get this to work, is it just a VM thing?

Currently my live machine has a Ubuntu partition and a MacOS Snow leopard partition and I want to get rid of Ubuntu which I can use gparted to do but then want to use the unused space to give Antix. If can’t be done or too complicated that’s fine and that’s where the reinstall comes in but don’t really want to have to set everything back up if I can restore it.

I hope this makes sense I just seem to be confusing myself now and don’t want to reinvent the wheel if someone else can help.

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I am not sure how you made the ISO, but I can tell you how I made an installed antiX system on a VirtualBox VM, made it a Live USB and then installed on real hardware.

1. First you need to install on a VM. This needs your user account created on the VM, installing normally (I asume this is what you did). Make sure the installed system is FULLY UPDATED to get the latest iso-template and iso-snapshot patches and the latest antix installer version.

2. Use the Iso snapshot tool to create an exact copy of the running system. I used the default configuration (Preserving accounts for personal backup), in xz compression.

3. Use Live USB Maker to “burn” the snapshot into a USB storage device. You can do this from inside the VM or get the ISO out and use a different live USB system to make the bootable snapshot.

4. Boot the Live USB snapshot. Use the Control Centre > Disks > antiX Installer to install the snapshot (custom installation, into any partition you want it) and follow the steps. It will not ask you to create a new user account, if I am not mistaken, but install the snapshot completely into your selected partition.

I need to check this again but I think that is how it is done. I don’t remember having to create a new account, so I asume it will not ask you to create one.

Always make sure your system is up to date before proceeding to do a snapshot, as you will be sure you have all recent patches.

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Let’s scratch the term “restore”.
The operation at hand is installation from iso.
If I understand correctly, this installation is just intended as a trial run toward ensuring the iso will be installable to disk.

> All goes well with maninstall minstall until [..] where it says unable to create user passwords

> (I don’t want to do that accounts already in image? So just give a random name like test)

In the “known good ‘running system’, tweaked to my liking” operating system, the demo user account did exist. Unclear whether it was this account which had been used//customized. This detail is both unclear to me, and is unknown to the installer. If you no longer “want to do that accounts already in image”…

…I would proceed with the install-to-vb as is (as WAS) first, then re-juggle(?) the user accounts. After ensuring that all your customizations still work as expected, as desired, for the changed user account(s) and (as Xecure suggested) ensuring that all installed packages are fully up-to-date… that would be the suitable time to remove the “demo” account, followed by creation of a fresh snapshot iso.

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