Hello James,
I wanted to thank you for these steps. Below is what I did to have Rachel Pi running on a Mint Linux VM in Oracle VirtualBox:
- I installed Oracle VirtualBox
- Downloaded Mint Linux 20.3 iso image and created a Virtual Machine.
- then I downloaded the linux_08_28_2020.zip and followed the steps below:
- extracted to /var/tmp
- cd /var/tmp/installer
- sudo bash rachel
I didn’t install a hotspot. I rather enabled my Windows PC to be a hotspot. Use this guide to do so.
Once Rachel was installed, I rebooted and looked up the IP Address of the Mint Linux (type ifconfig in a terminal to get the ip address) and typed that IP into my browser and BOOM: I had RACHEL.
I couldn’t get to it using http:\rachel.com. (not sure why).
But this setup means one does not have to buy a Raspberry Pi. which is such a relief. Any Windows / Linux box can be used. You just have to get a PC with a lot of Memory, HD Space and a good processor.
Thank you thank you thank you!!!