Install Ubuntu Desktop in Virtual PC Part 1

Note: This video series is out of date and is for an older version of Ubuntu. Please see the new series, Install Ubuntu Desktop in VMWare Server for current versions of Ubuntu. This series of three videos shows how to install Ubuntu Linux Desktop in Virtual PC. These instructions are demonstrated on Windows but apply to the Mac version of Virtual PC as well. Installation in Parallels Desktop for Intel Macs is similar. The general technique is also applicable to current versions of VMWare.There are some tricks to getting Linux to work in Virtual PC and other virtualization software due to the default video depth settings in most Linux distributions. Why do it? To experiment, to learn, and for instructional purposes. Try before you (don't even have to) buy. The video is divided into 3 sections due to length limitations; view all three for the complete instructions. Ubuntu Linux version 6.10 is a free download at http://releases.ubuntu.com/6.10/. Total running time is about 28 minutes.

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Education

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• Linux
• Ubuntu
• VirtualPC
• Install
• Parallels
• VMWare
• Virtual
• PC

[hulkhatepunybanner]

I guess this would be helpful in 2001 when I was running Windows NT and had an old OS/2 machine.

[brucefulton]

@hulkhatepunybanner As noted in the description, it's old and out of date, replaced with more recent linked videos for those with access to new technologies. However in many countries and locations, this represents the best technology available. In third world countries, getting this up and running with a virtual library of agricultural and basic health information resources can be a life or death matter. Sure you want me to delete it?

[hulkhatepunybanner]

@brucefulton With all the useless "unboxing" videos yours would be the last I'd line up for deletion... if I had actually asked for it to be deleted. Keep it online. Not for me but for all those countries and locations this video has saved from very edge of death. I wouldn't want those farmers and their virtual PCs to be overcome by famine and pestilence. :)

[brucefulton]

@hulkhatepunybanner Yep, please visit, e.g. the greenstone project at greenstoneDOTorg for info on UNESCO's communities and institutions in the fields of education, science and culture around the world, and particularly in developing countries who are leveraging open source deployment of digital libraries to share information and place it in the public domain. Projects such as these put needed legacy computing and information resources in the hands of developing countries.

[ravenousjerboa]

this vid is old!!

[brucefulton]

@ravenousjerboa As noted in the description, it's old and out of date, replaced with more recent linked videos for those with access to new technologies. However in many countries and locations, this represents the best technology available. In third world countries, getting this up and running with a virtual library of agricultural and basic health information resources can be a life or death matter. Sure you want me to delete it?

[choubi323]

@pat20105 pc is not ubuntu

[brucefulton]

@ravenousjerboa Yes, it states that in the video description! I have several newer ones available.

[brucefulton]

@azurcorp reinstall, or better, review my newer videos using vmware or virtualbox.

[azurcorp]

Kernel panic!