<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 24.04.2009, at 07:41, 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; ">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I tried all sorts of things with the file that I have downloaded twice now. I seem to be able to unzip it, but it converts to .vdi and when I click on it to open it, this is the message I get:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">The document “soas-beta-1.vdi” could not be opened. The file is too large.</span><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><br></span></div><div>This is the file that is supposed to have everything needed in one neat package that "lives" on the MacBook. It isn't supposed to be a "document."</div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You seem to have overlooked my response on what to do with the .vdi file. It's *not* as simple as double-clicking yet, but simpler than most of the other methods. Note that it will *only* run on one a Mac with Intel processor, not on a G4.</div><div><br></div><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>Is there a secret to unzipping this thing so it can be used? </div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, simply unzipping is fine.</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>Is there a way to open the .vdi file and run Sugar? </div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Yes, you need to use it in VirtualBox. I replied yesterday with a step-by-step procedure:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Bert Freudenberg <<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">23. April 2009 13:15:38 MESZ</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Caryl Bigenho <<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Cc: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">IAEP SugarLabs <<a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b>Re: [IAEP] .zip turned into .vdi What now?</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div></div><div 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="color: rgb(0, 0, 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="color: rgb(0, 0, 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="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-family: Helvetica; ">- Bert -</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span></div><br></div></blockquote></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>