Ubuntu (Linux). Some advice please

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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?
 
I know that it's possible to do it the other way, as I have done it. I don't see there being a problem going from the virtual box to bare metal; but you might have to use the kernel failback image during boot (assuming that *buntu creates one when installing).

Give it a try - this probably wouldn't work in Windows; but I think there's a very good chance it will work in linux.
 
that linux dos thing? terminal is it? will give it a shot - was hoping to leave the command prompt days behind me ;)
 
Windows command prompt: not powerful, frequently lacking useful utilities, poor scripting ability (relatively speaking). The upshot of this is that do accomplish much you need a GUI.

Unix command prompt: Extremely powerful (you can do pretty much anything from the CLI, even edit images and browse the web), a multitude of small utilities can be used to accomplish just about anything, these utilities generally follow the part Unix philosophy which declares that plain text is the way to communicate. As such the output from one can easily be piped to another for more complex operations. Scripting is huge. The upshot of this is that a GUI is optional for many operations. ssh >> RDP

...all IMO, of course

Of course, this has nothing to do with the current conversation. The alternate installer simply is not graphical. It doesn't dump you out into a command line at any point unless you tell it to do that. Think of it as being like a non-sucky version of the Windows XP text installer we've all used eleventeen thousand times.
 
If you still have problems getting this installed, then have a look at Wubi. It allows you to install a fully working Linux install from within your Windows installation, but it's not just a Virtual Machine that you install.

Wubi isn't the best way to install (K/X/)Ubuntu, imo, but it will allow you to work around your problem.
 
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)
 
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??)
 
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