Part 2 - Installing Debian on a Virtual Machine

1.Downloading and installation of VirtualBox

To install VirtualBox you need to go on and download the package corresponding to your operating system.

Once it has been downloaded you can go ahead and launch the program. After having completed the settings you can finally start using VirtualBox.

2.Creation of a new virtual machine

In order to create a new virtual machine you first have to open VirtualBox then click on “new”. After that a window should open, that's when you choose a name for your virtual machine and all its settings. To create a virtual machine that uses Linux Debian you should download Debian first if you haven’t already done it. Now that you have Debian, you can go back to the window with your virtual machine’s settings and select others in ISO image. That’s when you can choose your Debian folder.

3.Downloading and installation of Debian

To install Debian you can go to and click on download.

Once you've downloaded the folder, you need to open it through VirtualBox. In order to do that you need to create a new virtual machine and select your Debian folder as the ISO image.

4.Illustrations and examples of some sample Linux command lines

We created a tree structure using basic Linux commands like cd, mkdir, touch and cat to test it. At first we couldn’t use basic linux commands so we tried a lot of different things to try and overcome our problem. In the end we managed to

successfully add our user to the sudoers. In order to do that we used this command :

“su root” followed by “nano /etc/sudoers”. Then we added our user in the sudoers list. We also updated all the packages.

5.Advanced functions (such as exploring the GUI interface, installing software drivers, etc…)