Or you could just use an appliance: See the second half of this page starting with "Setting Up A Pre-Packaged WordPress Appliance" http://www.sitepoint.com/how-to-build-a-speedy-wordpress-sandbox-vm/ Gerry (the first part of the article looks good too...) On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, David S. Cargo wrote: > I want to create a sandbox system to experiment with WordPress. > > I've got a still-shiny Windows 8 laptop that I have installed > VirtualBox on. > > I've been experimenting with some light distros (Puppy and SLAX) > just to see how the run in the virtual environment (not so good > with Puppy, and fine, but limited with SLAX). > > I also have an lubuntu 12.04 that runs fine. > > I used the Synaptic package manager to download and install a bunch > of extra packages that are not part of the base install. I've got > WordPress downloaded and installed, but not yet properly configured. > (It doesn't seem to install itself "out of the box" and I still need > to figure out how to get it connected with MySQL.) > > Are there better light-weight distros for this application? An easy > to install WordPress might not be possible, but I thought I would > ask. > > Any favorite distros for running in VirtualBox? > > Thanks. > > escargo > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Gerry Skerbitz gsker at skerbitz.org