I am trying to install the virtualbox guest additions into a feisty fawn (7.04) VM. The problem I am running into is that when I Click install guest additions, or place the iso in the drive manually, the disk never shows up in the machine. I even manually mounted and went to the mounted directory and it was empty. When using the file browser, doubling clicking on the cdrom yields

Unable to mount the selected volume. mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist.

Secondly, I tried installing via repository... but according to the system, I have no internet connection. But, I can browse the web using firefox just fine (in the guest).

Here is my /etc/network/interfaces file...

code
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

I also tryed setting a static ip...

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.253
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1

The reason I am trying to get this particular installation running is because it is part of a book, "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation" (Jon Erickson), and is fully loaded wilh tools and such to go along exactly with the book.

I appreciate any effort into finding a solution for this!

Thanks