Hi Catherine
You need to mount the external harddisk inside the virtualbox and give its path as $SUBJECTS_DIR.
The path starting with E:\data.. is how Windows 7 sees the harddisk.
Unfortunately, there is no easy way to do this.
* The hardwork is to make the Guest OS ( ubuntu in this case ) see the external harddisk. Here is a start -- http://superuser.com/questions/87221/how-can-i-mount-an-external-hard-drive-...
* once the Guest OS sees it, you need to know where it's mounted ( if it's done automatically )
or use the mount command to mount it to a location like /media/external
* Then your $SUBJECTS_DIR will be
setenv $SUBJECTS_DIR /media/external/data/Ventricle-freesurfer/......
etc.
also recommend you to read the "Shared Folders" section in the VirtualBox user manual http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/UserManual.pdf
-Krish
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 11:12:53AM -0400 Bruce Fischl wrote:
Hi Catherine
I don't have much experience with virtual boxes, but I suspect that is the windows name for the path, not the unix one in the virtual box. Someone who knows more about this than I do can confirm/correct.
cheers Bruce
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011, Rongxiang Tang wrote:
Hi Bruce, Thanks for your prompt reply. I'm running the freesurfer in a virtual box in windows 7. When I plug the usb in, the computer just called it (E:)...and i just directly copy that directory"E:\data\Ventricle-freesurfer\ben\1.3.12.2.1107.5.2.7.20418.30000009010518365025000028507" to the command line... Is this correct? Thanks Catherine
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