The VirtualBox guest additions for Debian are advertised as straightforward; however, they are not. The virtualbox.org pages don't really give much information. To make matters worse, the VBoxLinuxAdditions.run file requires script support that is native to RedHat, which gives errors such as: echo_success: command not found.
Here's the how-to for Debian, line by line:
apt-get install build-essential module-assistant
m-a prepare
Now you need to install two files from RedHat from my links below:
/etc/init.d/functions
/sbin/consoletype
Now when you run ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run after you mount the CDROM, all works well.
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