SAÉ 1.03 part 2

Downloading and installation of VirtualBox (version 7.x or 6.x)

For this first part go on https://www.virtualbox.org/ and click on the windows hosts.

After that go on https://www.debian.org/download and click on the debian-12.7.0.amd64-netinst.iso link :

Creation of a new virtual machine

Once you download those files, execute the virtual box software. You should have this window :

In the top menu, click “new”. Now name your virtual machine and select your Debian ISO. It should recognise automatically the OS type and subtype :

Next type your username and password for your Debian user account. Now, you have to enter the amount of gigabytes of RAM and processor cores you want to give to your virtual machine. The best amount depends on your physical computer specificities. For the exemple, we will take 4GB of RAM, and 4 CPU cores. After that, you have to enter how much storage disk you want. Again, the best amount is variable. We will take 50GB for the exemple. You can also create a partition of your disk to completely separate your Debian and your Windows files. And that’s all for the virtual machine installation. You just have to run your Debian, and the installation will start automatically :

Configuration of Debian

The first thing to do is to give your user account the sudo status. To do that, we will start the virtual machine. When you are on this screen :

type the bottom key and enter. Next, go into recovery mode. You can now type :

cd /etc/

nano sudoers

You are actually editing the sudoers file. Go to the bottom of the file, ans search for the :