<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 23.04.2009, at 08:14, Caryl Bigenho wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Hello Again,</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Still trying to get SoaS going on my MacBook. I downloaded the soas-beta-1.zip. It took a long time (almost 2 hrs on dsl).</div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's big, 350 MB. So 2 hours would indicate a download speed of 400 kbit/sec. Depending on what DSL speed you pay for that might well be as fast as it goes.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://compnetworking.about.com/od/dsldigitalsubscriberline/f/dslspeed.htm">http://compnetworking.about.com/od/dsldigitalsubscriberline/f/dslspeed.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>On my DSL (6000 kbit/sec) it still took 9 minutes.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "> I finally had time to look at it and try to use it and discovered that it no longer is a zip file. Somehow it turned into "soas-beta-1.vdi" </div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Was that supposed to happen? What do I do with it now? It is asking what application I want to use to open it. The file is the same size as the zip file (357 MB) so it looks like the same file...just with a different extension. Is there a way to change it back?</div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>It's fine. The .zip contains a single file named .vdi so it is uncompressed automatically. "VDI" means "Virtualbox Disk" I guess.</div><div><br></div><div>After downloading, run VirtualBox.</div><div>Click "New" to open the "New Virtual Machine Wizard". Click "Next".</div><div>Choose a name ("SoaS"), OS ("Linux"), Version ("Fedora"). Click "Next".</div><div>Choose the memory (256 MB is fine). Click "Next".</div><div>Choose the disk: click "Existing...". The "Virtual Media Manager" opens. Click "Add". Find "soas-beta-1.vdi", click "Open", then "Select", then "Next".</div><div>Click "Finish". You're done!</div><div><br></div><div>Now whenever you run VirtualBox, just choose "SoaS" from the list and click "Start" to run it. Don't worry if it appears to hang after writing something about "loading initrd0.img", it will continue eventually.</div><div><br></div><div>Note that VirtualBox "captures" your mouse pointer, to "escape", press the left Cmd key.</div><div><br></div><div>Have fun with SoaS on your Mac :)</div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">- Bert -</span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span> </div><br></body></html>