Vista users, you got to at least try ubuntu (if you are a bit geek at
least).

Why do this? Well if you have a little spirit of adventure and want to learn
new stuff go for it.

here is how you can do it without a problem at all

download the virtual appliance from here and the vmware player
and use ubuntu in the virtual machine.... to start learning about it.

Note you would need more than 1 gig of ram and a dual core cpu for better
results

on this machine, a 4 core, 4 gig ram one the virtual machine goes incredibly
fast!

Virtual appliance with vmware tools preinstalled

http://jars.de/english/ubuntu-804-vm...wnload-english


vmware player, free

http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

Clear Windows, the dumb sh*t idiot wrote:

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Knock yourself out capin' crunch. Take your meds, low limux, urbuttoo or
whatever, join hands with that sheep-fukker alias and his side kick kev
and party on dude!...LOL!
What mental picture that makes...hahahaha!
Frank

I tried to try it, but it just won't install in Virtual PC.

"Clear Windows" <carlferedeck> wrote in message
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[..]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:24:22 +0300, Clear Windows wrote:

[..]
> incredibly fast!
>
> Virtual appliance with vmware tools preinstalled
>
> [..]
>> vmware player, free
>
> [..]

I've been running various OS's using VirtualBox on a 1.5ghz VIA C7 machine
with 2gb ram - everything works quite nicely.

Gary Mount wrote:
> I tried to try it, but it just won't install in Virtual PC.
I also could not get 8.04 to install in virtual pc 2007 on vista home
premium, getting the error "an unrecoverable processor error has been
encountered. The virtual machine will now reset." Found one suggestion
to use the "alternate" .iso, which also threw up the same error. An mvp
has previously reported in another thread about an installation failure,
but with a different error. I finally successfully used the innotek
virtualbox for the installation. It might be worth your effort to give
it a try. http://www.virtualbox.org/
Good luck.
[..]

norm wrote:
> Gary Mount wrote:
>> I tried to try it, but it just won't install in Virtual PC.
> I also could not get 8.04 to install in virtual pc 2007 on vista home
> premium, getting the error "an unrecoverable processor error has been
> encountered. The virtual machine will now reset." Found one suggestion
> to use the "alternate" .iso, which also threw up the same error. An mvp
> has previously reported in another thread about an installation failure,
> but with a different error. I finally successfully used the innotek
> virtualbox for the installation. It might be worth your effort to give
> it a try. [..]
> Good luck.

As an alternative, which I have also tried successfully, is that you can
install 8.04 within vista using the wubi installer. The install is done
to a folder in vista and is totally removable via add/remove programs.
The wubi installer adds an ubuntu boot choice to the vista boot menu,
and that choice will disappear when ubuntu is uninstalled from vista. It
works as a dual boot, but does not require any knowledge or skill in
setting up a partition or other issues found when dealing with
traditional dual boot scenarios. And finally, one can always install it
on a stand-alone machine (which I also have done) if one is available
that meets the minimum install standards. Good luck.
[..]

On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:30:54 -0700, Gary Mount wrote:

> I tried to try it, but it just won't install in Virtual PC.

Try http://www.virtualbox.org/ - runs on Vista, Linux, XP and others.
Does not screw up if you run Linux. If using Vista, make sure to bridge
the network devices. Even runs Solaris 10i nicely.

You can also consider dual boot. The Ubuntu bootloader can fire up Vista.

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:22:13 +0000, ray wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:24:22 +0300, Clear Windows wrote:
>> I've been running various OS's using VirtualBox on a 1.5ghz VIA C7
> machine with 2gb ram - everything works quite nicely.

VirtualBox is good, even in Vista.

that's what I did on one of my computers, not that I don't know how to make
partitions,
but with wubi everything is just far more simple..

you install- uninstall it just like a normal program... no harm done

"norm" <noone> wrote in message
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[..]

I have used all the virtual well known, virtual machine (VPC, Vmware,
Virtual Box, Parallels) programs...

the only reason I mentioned my OP is that the virtual machine was already
pre-installed
and you just download it and run it with vmware player..

no need to install ubuntu inside the virtual machine.

Vmware.com calles these pre-installed OS's appliances'

So this is far more simple for people to start using it right away

"Canuck57" <dave8762> wrote in message
news:f3no
[..]

I have used all the virtual well known, virtual machine (VPC, Vmware,
Virtual Box, Parallels) programs...

the only reason I mentioned my OP is that the virtual machine was already
pre-installed
and you just download it and run it with vmware player..

no need to install ubuntu inside the virtual machine.

Vmware.com calles these pre-installed OS's appliances'

So this is far more simple for people to start using it right away

"norm" <noone> wrote in message
news:4620
[..]

"Clear Windows" wrote in message news:9a21
[..]
> incredibly fast!
>
> Virtual appliance with vmware tools preinstalled
>
> [..]
>> vmware player, free
>
> [..]


Geek adventure? That's kid stuff! Us old geezers prefer Mac's and Windows
PC's because we don't want to use the "old way" of command line computing.
It's a huge step backwards.

On the other hand, since so very few hackers and virus writers consider it
worth the bother, you and your classmates should be safe enough, even
without parental controls. Have fun!

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:46:14 -0400, here wrote:

> "Clear Windows" wrote in message
> news:9a21
>> Geek adventure? That's kid stuff! Us old geezers prefer Mac's and
> Windows PC's because we don't want to use the "old way" of command line
> computing. It's a huge step backwards.

There has not been a need to do 'command line computing' in any major
Linux distribution released in about the last five years. You'd know that
if you ever tried one.

>
> On the other hand, since so very few hackers and virus writers consider
> it worth the bother, you and your classmates should be safe enough, even
> without parental controls. Have fun!

Dan's Guardian and other projects work quite well with Linux. Again, you'd
know that if you ever tried it. I think 'parental controls' are better
provided with Linux than MS.

"ray" <ray> wrote in message
news:3vu3
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:46:14 -0400, here wrote:
>> There has not been a need to do 'command line computing' in any major
> Linux distribution released in about the last five years. You'd know that
> if you ever tried one.
>> Dan's Guardian and other projects work quite well with Linux. Again, you'd
> know that if you ever tried it. I think 'parental controls' are better
> provided with Linux than MS.


Really? No more "sudo apt-key add" crap? They eliminated "sudo aptitude
dist-upgrade" BS? Are you claiming Ubuntu works the way Windows works, with
icons, point'n'click functionality and a GUI that doesn't require a user
manual? If I run it from the CD, will it just load, like Windows?

Don't make it sound so simple. You're in a Windows Vista forum, and many
people reading these groups have never even seen any non-Windows OS. They
don't know the first thing about configuring an install.

Besides, just because it's free doesn't make it worth replacing every 6-18
months. I still have an old OEM '98SE set up for offline games and homework
for the grandkids.

> Don't make it sound so simple. You're in a Windows Vista forum, and many
> people reading these groups have never even seen any non-Windows OS. They
> don't know the first thing about configuring an install.

I certainly have not seen anything like it. Why would one want to change to
that OS and will everything be compatable with it?

> Besides, just because it's free doesn't make it worth replacing every 6-18
> months. I still have an old OEM '98SE set up for offline games and
> homework for the grandkids.

Hehe ... I had an old pentium for my dos games, untill I discovered Dosbox.
Some of the older games are just too much fun to chuck away. Keep well.

http://spookpaleis.myminicity.com/