Ubuntu (Linux). Some advice please

[tomos]

i tried ubuntu and kubuntu a little while ago via vmware and really liked ubuntu. found some aspects of it superior to windows

i want to try and dual boot it, but the last time i tried that i cant get it working even though it works fine in vmware. i boot off the cd and try to change the res. once this happens i found it cant do it properly and the display is all blurry. but, if i try to install it first the res is too low to show the 'next' buttons.

this doesnt happen in the virtual install for some reason

side note. is it possible to take a virtual install and image it with acronis onto a physical drive and use that install on a live and not virutal pc?

 

[tomos]

that linux dos thing? terminal is it? will give it a shot - was hoping to leave the command prompt days behind me

 

[tomos]

hi guys, got around to trying this today and for some reason, booting off an acronis iso first works fine but it cant see any hard drives at all (i changed the boot order in the vmware bios) - so that theory was shot.

i tried it in virtual pc (which i now know it carp and doesnt do 64-bit!) with a 32 bit ubuntu but that blurry/distorted image that i mentioned in the OP is all i get once the GUI starts up. i remember this aaages ago on an old PC with a 5 or 6* version of ubuntu.

seems like there's some issues with the GUI used. (shame, wanted to try it too ) i'll give wubi a shot on a vpc of xp and see what happens (dont want to test anything on a live system)

 

[tomos]

ooh, wubi worked on there like a charm. says on the official site that it will be officially part of ubuntu in 8.04?

now to test the rest of that process (lvpm is needed apparently??)