by Payload » 2017-04-30 02:41
Hey,
I tried Debian in Virtual-Box on my Mac-Book Air before installing it for real. For me, it's pretty easy.
(I am assuming that you are on a 64 bit computer.)
1. Download an iso live image of Debian from debian.org (pick a mirror site that is geographically close to you). Pick the desktop you like (cinnamon, gnome, etc)
2. Open virtual box, click "New", and type the name you want, select "Linux" as type, and select "Debian (64-bit)" as the version. Select "Create a virtual hard disk
now" and click Create.
3. Select the location that you want to put your virtual hard disk in. Then, select the size you want (i did 15 GB). Leave the "hard disk file type" and "dynamically
allocated" as default.
4. Start the virtual machine. A dialog box will pop up shortly after, telling you to load the iso image that you previously downloaded.
5. Follow the guided graphical installation in the iso live image. When you are in the partitioning step, just select "use entire disk". This will utilize all the space in
the virtual hard disk that you created in step 3.