[Bio-linux-list] FW: Biolinux / Firefox web browser

[Tony Travis]

On 09/04/18 23:17, Breen Patrick (RTH) OUH wrote:
> Hi Tony
> 
> Thanks for getting in touch.

Hi, Patrick.

Please post your messages to the Bio-Linux mailing list because someone
there might be able to help you or might have similar problems to you.

> I am running Bio-Linux on my Mac as a guest OS under VirtualBox. Can
> you advise on how to check that it is using the 'native' MAC drivers,
> as I don't really understand this?

This is not a Bio-Linux issue, it depends on how you set up networking
for the VirtualBox guest OS when you created it. I don't have experience
of using VirtualBox with Mac OS as the host and Bio-Linux as the guest.
However, a quick Google search showed up lots of networking issues for
people who are running VirtualBox on a Mac OS host. This might help:

> http://www.bogotobogo.com/Linux/Ubuntu_Desktop_on_Mac_OSX_using_VirtualBox_4_3_II.php

BTW, did you import the .ova or did you install it from a .iso file?

In any case, when you a network connection, please run in a terminal:

  sudo -i
  apt update
  apt full-upgrade

As I mentioned before, it will be a lot easier if you connect your Mac
to a wired Ethernet connection.

> Is Biolinux any easier to use if I run it off a USB-stick? I had
> tried that approach when I first started using Biolinux in january?

It is quite easy to run Bio-Linux from a USB-stick, but WiFi may not
work depending on which WiFi chipset is in your laptop. This is not a
Bio-Linux or Ubuntu issue, it is because the WiFi chips use proprietary
firmware that Apple and MicroSoft do not want to be freely distributed.

> Any other advice would be most welcome.

I would try booting Bio-Linux from a USB-stick with you Mac connected to
a wired Ethernet connection or using a USB WiFi dongle that is supported
by Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Let me know how you get on, especially if you can get it to work :-)

Bye,

  Tony.

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