Step by step setup for Sandbox Needed

[#1]

I am a beginner and following the Learning the Ropes tutorial and am unable to connect to the welcome screen. I have spent a few days trying different hosts file modifications and different browser address and none seem to work. I have also tried all these on a PC and Mac trying both VMware and VirtualBox. I have stuck with VirtualBox because it seem like the one people are most using in the forum questions. Can anyone please provide an actual step by step?

Things I have tried:

host file -

127.0.0.1 localhost sandbox.hortonworks.com vs 127.0.0.1 sandbox.hotronworks.com vs 192.168.XX.XX localhost sandbox.hortonworks.com

browser ips:

127.0.01.1:8888 vs localhost:8888 vs 192.168.XX.XX:8888

Firewall is NOT enabled

Also there are three choices when I start the VirtualBox

CentOs Linux (4.12.4-1.elrepo.x86_64) 7 (Core) - this generates a blank screen

CentOS Linux (3.10.0-514.26.2.el7.x86_64) 7 (Core) - this generates a blank screen

CentOS Linux (0-rescue-6f5d5e9d826b4471ad0elf7a92e697dd) 7 (Core) - this works and brings up the screen seen in the tutorial

Can someone explain this? Sorry I am a true beginner.

[#2]

@John Koop

You will have to give this last try I downloaded a VM image a couple of hours ago. And below is what I exactly did.

1. Network I used Bridged Adapter

2. Memory 12 GB

3. Booted the sandbox

4. on the initial login <ALt + F5>

5. password root/hadoop

6. At the prompt as root

7. switched to the docker image

# ssh -p2222 root@127.0.0.1 

# ambari-admin-password-reset 

entered admin and confirmed

7. The above step initialized the ambari server and successfully

8. Could access ambari UI through

http://sandbox-host:8080

There we go

[#3]

FYI, the tutorial has recently been updated:

Learning the Ropes of the Hortonworks Sandbox