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RedHat and Fedora

More specifically, CentOS and Fedora. The relation between these three is :

  • Fedora is free and the base for redhat and centos. It is the 'sid' of the redhat suite.
  • Redhat is paid for and checked more, see it as the stable version of Redhat.
  • CentOS is the free version of RedHat. It is just as stable, and they try to mirror RH completely. but it is free !

Take a guess which two will be featured here ;)

Fedora

The main problem is lack of the kernel source, gcc etc to build the modules, so :

fedora
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yum install gcc kernel-devel kernel-headers dkms make bzip2 perl
cd /run/media/kees/VBOXADD*
./VBoxLinuxAdditionbs.run

Aaaaaand... that doesn't work either.. So TODO : investigate this...

Centos

Remember first of all not to download the netinstall image, because you will have to enter the complete url somewhere halfway. No pick lists or anything. And with all type errors combined you will probably be faster downloading the live install image.