I am running Anti-X 8.2 in VirtualBox on a Mac host. For some reason, this time around, I can't mount the"cd" so I can install guest additions. I am getting this error message...

when I click on the icon for the cdrom I get this twice

Error <i>org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.UnknownFailure</i>

then I get... Directory doesn't exist!

I am new to Linux and Anti-X in particular. I have no idea what's wrong. Help?

thanks

From the VirtualBox user manual:
First you must install dkms in antiX, so open the root terminal (menu>applications>applications>terminal emulators>x-terminal as root) then Then in VirtualBox 'Devices' menu, select 'Mount CD/DVD-ROM', click on 'Add' and find and select the 'VBoxGuestAdditions.iso' then click on 'Select'.

Usually in antiX it should be mounted in /media/cdrom, in this case you would (still in the root terminal) and then you may have to do this too and reboot the virtual machine (antiX).

well, what you said made sense to me, however, I still get the original error message. for some reason, although I can see the icon for the cdrom, if I click it I get the same message.

btw, you wouldn't happen to know how to emable pcman's root function?

btw, when I try and mount the .iso for the guest additions using the mount app fron the control center, I get a message in the terminal that says... special device cdrom does not exist

For the pcmanfm thing, open the root terminal and type then add in the end a line like (change username for your user name)

secipolla wrote:For the pcmanfm thing, open the root terminal and type

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visudo

then add in the end a line like

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username ALL = /usr/bin/pcmanfm

(change username for your user name)

thanks, I will try that as soon as I reinstall Anti-X

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is tiny too and comes with VBox guest additions already installed. Maybe it would be nice to try.
I read somewhere that after you install it you must login with password 'root'.

secipolla wrote:
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://pclinuxos.com/?page_id=188"
linktext was:"PCLinuxOS LXDE"
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is tiny too and comes with VBox guest additions already installed. Maybe it would be nice to try.
I read somewhere that after you install it you must login with password 'root'.

I did have that at one point. Worked well. I decided to try simplyMEPIS for the time being.

hello and welcome to antiX! i don't know if it is the same problem, but i had that error because my cdrom was seen as /dev/cdrom1 and in fstab was mounted as /dev/cdrom. if this is the case, open run and type:
and add a"1" to the cdrom line to read something like this:
save and then reboot.