RossMcd Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 Hey! I want to intstall Ubuntu onto my laptop for college purposes but I would like to run it along side Windows vista. Is it possible to run it as a virtual operating system or would I have to partition my hard drive and run it that way? And I would like some help with actually going about doing it if that is possible? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 Hey! I want to intstall Ubuntu onto my laptop for college purposes but I would like to run it along side Windows vista. Is it possible to run it as a virtual operating system or would I have to partition my hard drive and run it that way? And I would like some help with actually going about doing it if that is possible? Thanks You could download the live CD, boot ubuntu straight off it (wont touch your windows install) Otherwise you should be able to download a ubuntu virtual machine image and run it in VMware on windows. edit: vmware ubuntu image: http://chrysaor.info...s&filter=Ubuntu - you'll need to open that in VMware player. Both much easier than partitioning your hard drive and dual booting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossMcd Posted March 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 I cant seem to dowload VMware player. I try to activate an account and it comes up with Server forbidden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossMcd Posted March 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2011 Dual booted my laptop with ubuntu. It installed and I waited as it done it's stuff. Now I try to open ubuntu and it comes up with "gave up waiting for root device" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossMcd Posted March 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2011 Running fine now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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