Hello everyone!
I am currently using Virtual Box to run Freesurfer and I was wondering if my plan to put the version 6 beta on to my current virtual box was a valid one.
My plan was to delete the Freesurfer folder off of the 5.3 virtual box and replace it with the Freesurfer version 6 folder. However, the virtual box is not letting me delete the Freesurfer folder. So I have some questions:
Does anyone have an idea of how I would go about deleting theoriginal Freesurfer folder, so I could continue with this plan?
Are you just getting a permissions error when you attempt to delete the folder? I created that disk image with freesurfer installed on it, but I would still think that the freesurfer folder could be deleted. Recall that the root password for the disk image is 'freesurfer' (without the quotes).
Is this plan a good one?
Its a workable plan. The Virtual Box version of freesurfer has its limitations, but if it works for you than this plan seems adequate for testing purposes.
Should I try and download another linux virtual box somewhere andput the version 6 beta on that?
This would be my suggestion. Try just installing any of the Ubuntu disk images and installing freesurfer within that (http://www.osboxes.org/ubuntu/)
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