[PsychoCoder]

Well finally got the time and am installing Ubuntu on a VM. Ill let you know what I think


EDIT:
Good God this is taking forever to install
Well first attempt failed, when it finally loaded the screen was all fu**ed up, like it was in 2 bit color

This post has been edited by PsychoCoder: 27 February 2008 - 11:41 PM

[PsychoCoder]

Anyone ever seen this when using Ubunto on a VM??

[no2pencil]

PsychoCoder, on 27 Feb, 2008 - 11:49 PM, said:

Anyone ever seen this when using Ubunto on a VM??

attachment

That comes standard...

[PsychoCoder]

Standard??!! Hell I cant even click anything, how the hell do I fix it??

[no2pencil]

PsychoCoder, on 27 Feb, 2008 - 11:56 PM, said:

Standard??!! Hell I cant even click anything

I was just messin' with ya. I've never seen that before... ever. Looks like the resolution may be off.

PsychoCoder, on 27 Feb, 2008 - 11:56 PM, said:

how the hell do I fix it??

Did you try yelling at it? Did you curse? A lot?

[bhandari]

try hitting the screen hard with your hand. Sometimes colours go wayard and you need to replace your screen. Be fast. It may blow up. Throw your machine away.

[PsychoCoder]

LOL! Im not throwing my machine away

[Nayana]

If you're using Virtual PC, yeah, I've had that problem before.

It was a lot happier when I switched to VMWare.

There is a way to get it to work, but I couldn't be bothered.

Also, it's because Virtual PC only supports 16/32 bit colour, and the default for Ubuntu it 24 bit.

So if you install it in safe graphics mode, then edit the config to make it 16 or 32 it might work.

* I wrote text mode, but Ubuntu install doesn't have that!

You'll also find (if you're using Ubuntu 7.xx) that the mouse probably won't work. That can be fixed too.

This post has been edited by Nayana: 28 February 2008 - 12:10 AM

[PsychoCoder]

OKay then trying VMWare and see if I have any better luck. But VMWare sure eats up a lot of system resources (so far anyways)

[PsychoCoder]

@Nayana: While this is installing, how hard is it to setup my wireless connection in Ubuntu? In PCLinux it was easy as pie

This post has been edited by PsychoCoder: 28 February 2008 - 12:31 AM

[no2pencil]

PsychoCoder, on 28 Feb, 2008 - 12:04 AM, said:

LOL! Im not throwing my machine away

You could virtually throw away the VM... yes yes?

[PsychoCoder]

no2pencil, on 27 Feb, 2008 - 11:32 PM, said:

You could virtually throw away the VM... yes yes?

Which I have done, I switched to VMWare

[Tom9729]

QEMU is better than both of them.

VMware installs so many annoying system hooks...

[Nykc]

I seen that screen to when setting up my Dual Boot initially, it disappeared and never came back.

Psycho - The wireless is pretty much seamless, unless you are using broadcom 43xx. Then you will have some minor tweaking to do. Ubuntu forums were very helpful I found.

This post has been edited by Nykc: 28 February 2008 - 02:39 PM

[GWatt]

Tom9729, on 28 Feb, 2008 - 04:25 PM, said:

QEMU is better than both of them.

VMware installs so many annoying system hooks...

QEMU doesn't support DVDs, at least not on Macs.