Ubuntu Installation
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Ubuntu is required to install BEMOSS™. Please follow the steps below to install Ubuntu on a PC or a Mac.
Note: Ubuntu 16.04.2 Desktop is recommended for use with BEMOSS™ OS.
You can go to http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/ and download the image file. Either 32-bit or 64-bit version is fine.
- Choose VirtualBox for your OS
To install on Windows choose: Windows hosts -> x86/AMD64
To install on Mac choose: OS X hosts -> Intel Macs
- After the installation file is downloaded, run and install the VirtualBox software.
After VirtualBox is installed and the Linux Ubuntu image has been downloaded, the virtual machine can be run and configured. The steps below describe Virtual Machine set up on a Mac host, which is the same as the set up on a PC host.
- Start VirtualBox and click "New" icon on the top left as shown below.
- Configure the name and operating system. Note that Ubuntu 32 bit was downloaded, therefore the 32 bit option was selected as shown below.
- Choose the amount of memory to allocate to your virtual machine guest OS (ubuntu). This memory will be unavailable to the host os (windows or Mac OS) while running the virtual machine. Note: a computer with 4 GB of RAM can probably allocate 1 GB for running the virtual machine.
- Select 'Create a virtual machine hard drive now'.
- Select 'VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk)'.
- Select 'Dynamically allocated'.
- Choose the file size for the virtual hard drive. We recommend at least 16GB.
- Click "Setting" and "Display". Increase Video Memory to 128MB. Choose monitor count = 1. Check "Enable 3D Acceleration" box.
- Click "Setting" and "System". In the "Processor" tab, check "Enable PAE/NX" box.
- Click "Setting" and "Storage". Load the Linux image by click the “CD/DVD icon" next to "Controller: IDE" having "+" on it.
- Select the Linux Ubuntu file and find and select the ISO file - for Ubuntu 16.04.2 that was downloaded earlier, to mount, then choose start.
- Click "Install Ubuntu". This will take about an hour. The virtual machine will now have the Linux Ubuntu installed.
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Start the VirtualBox
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At the VitualBox menu bar click > Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD image
- Restart Ubuntu
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At the VitualBox menu bar, click > Devices > Network > Network Settings >
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At the Adapter 1 tab, change "Attached to:" from "NAT" to "Bridged Adapter" and then choose the corresponding network interface.
- Reset network connection setting, click > Devices > Network > Connect Network Adapter (redo this step again if the VM does not obtain the ip address)