![]() ![]() Okay, I’ve gotten it to install 2 times now, but can’t get much further. I haven’t had much time to check out other features, or get the sound working so if anyone has a quick fix for that by all means leave a comment below. Once connected you’ll be free to visit your favorite websites! After that, click on the network icon in the upper right side of the toolbar, as you see below. For more instructions on this, see my video, Virtual PC Advanced Settings. First make sure the network card is mapped to a real network card in your computer. One last piece of business, fixing the networking. I gave it my user id and password, and minutes later I was in Ubuntu. ![]() You’ll see some garbled graphics for a few seconds, then the login screen finally appeared. Then it comes up to the big Ubuntu logo and the orange bar as it loads. The boot process does take a few minutes you’ll see some text then a black screen for about 90 seconds. I figured since it’s already installed, I wouldn’t lose anything, and I was right. I gave it about five minutes, then in the Virtual PC menu I clicked Action, Reset. This was the only real snag I hit in the whole install process, I waited a while and it never did restart on its own. Then click on the big Restart now button inside VPC. On the Virtual PC menu click CD, then release the cd. I had it kick in several times during the 45 (or so) minutes it took to get everything installed.Įventually Ubuntu will complete it’s install, then give you the above message. Just click in the VPC and wiggle your mouse and your display will return. Don’t be alarmed if the screen goes black during the process, it’s just the screen saver kicking in. Just click Install to begin the install process. Perhaps it was kidnapped by space aliens?Īpparently even without the missing step 6, the installer has everything it needs. I’m not sure what happened to step 6, I even ran the installer yet one more time just to make sure it was gone. When you click forward, you are suddenly on step 7 of 7. In the screen above, you are on step 5 of 7. Next you’ll need to key in a good password and confirm, and finally name the computer. By default it uses your first name, now is your chance to change it. The next text box is the important one – it is for your Ubuntu user name. On this screen, first supply your name this will be used in documents and the like. Don’t be alarmed, just wait a few minutes and you’ll then proceed to the next screen. Since we’re in a virtual environment, it made the most sense to just take the defaults and click Forward.īe aware, after clicking forward my mouse went into the “I’m busy” mode, and there was a delay while the disks were prepared. Next it asks how you want your disk space partitioned. Since I’m using a typical USA style keyboard, I just clicked Forward. I’m in the central time zone, but set yours appropriately and click Forward. Next it wants to know where you are, at least time zone wise. Screen 1 is just a welcome screen, although you can change your language here if you need to. Double click the Install icon to begin the install process. It took me about 7 minutes to get from the previous screen to the next one.Īfter it boots you should be in the live session trial environment. This is perfectly normal, it is just passing through and will be OK when Ubuntu gets done doing it’s thing. ![]() Do NOT pick the Install Ubuntu option, I kept getting VPC errors when trying to install directly.Īdditionally, don’t be alarmed if the screen goes black for a while, then you see some garbled graphics. Now pick “Try Ubuntu…” (should already be selected) and press enter. When it pops up, change to Safe graphics mode, as you see above, and press Enter. Now press F4 to select an alternate starting mode. Pick your language, I just took the default of English. (By the way, you can click on any of the screens to see the full size graphic, these have been resized slightly to fit in with most common browser sizes). When it launches, you’ll see this screen. Use the CD menu option to capture the desktop ISO you downloaded from Ubuntu, or if you have a real CD put it in the drive and capture that. If you can, try and use at least 512 meg of ram for good performance. Since I had the space, I was using 768 meg of ram, and left the disk space at the default of 16 gig. For a tutorial, see either my step by step tutorial or the video tutorial if you need more instructions. Left side won’t work, has to be the RIGHT side of your keyboard. To get it released, just press the RIGHT side ALT key. I’m pleased to say that Ubuntu 8.04 is probably the easiest install I’ve had to do with VPC yet! One quick reminder before we begin, when working inside the VPC your mouse will get “trapped” or captured by the virtual computer. 10, 2008 – New blog post on installing Ubuntu 8.10 is now out: ![]()
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