Re: Installation of Debian under MAC OS X Lion and Parallels Desktop 7

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:53 AM, <Holger.Lech@continental-corporation.com> wrote:

Hello everyone,

i have a little problem with the installation of a Debian package ( ixsoft ) from 8 DVD´s under Parallels Desktop
on a MacBookPro. After starting a new virtual machine installation under Parallels it asks for a CD/DVD.
But the inserted DVD can not be read ! When i start an already installed Windows 7, Windows can read the
files on the DVD. How can i solve it ?

I've not worked much with DVDs and/or Parallels with Debian on OS/X, but I have tinkered with USB sticks and VirtualBox, and it's been my experience that I have to eject the USB stick from the OS/X side (right-click, Eject, from the Finder's Desktop), and then use the VBox menus to mount the USB stick so that Debian can then see it. (In other words, VBox can't "see" an OS/X-mounted USB stick; it has to be unmounted from OS/X before VBox can see it as mountable to its guest OS.) I also vaguely recall that if you don't tell VBox to mount it fairly quickly (30 seconds?) after ejecting it from OS/X, OS/X will then remount it and make it once again unavailable to VBox.

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