Edward: Perhaps it's the wrong ISO file, i.e. you have a 32-bit machine and are installing the 64-bit ISO? Or perhaps the ISO was damaged during the download?

George: Thanks for the reply Edward. I dont know if the ISO is damaged or not. Performing a CD check produced the same results. Memory test worked fine. The machine I have is an AMD64 and I downloaded the 64bit version so that I can try in VMWARE b4 installing on the machine. I dont think it is the 64bits that causes the error as I have installed Gentoo 64bit under the same VMWARE with no probs. I also tried mounting the ISO with Deamon Tools but as you state it is quite possible something is corrupt on the ISO. (although I would expect a msg to appear about not being able to read a file). Anyway, working with i386 ver now...

George: Correction: It was a corrupt ISO... (only 300MB) my mistake (sorry)

Edward: If I remember correctly after you click install here it takes a 10 minutes or so until you get to the next step. But during this whole Ubuntu install I never had the feeling that I was waiting inordinately long, it was all very pleasant, always something on the screen loading, blinking, etc.

mopepom: After I discovered how to make the cursor work, the next phase, "Installing System" gives a good sense of progress - percentage completion and flashing indicators at Bottom Right of the ubuntu window. What I was surprised to see was Edward's comment - I didn't realize that this was an on-line tutorial. So far, the tutorial has been fantastic - although I am not sure how I would use it if I hadn't a two screen operation.

Edward: I made these tutorials so you can just print them out as well, there are no pop-ins so all necessary text gets printed including the comments. Works well on laser printers, screenshots are good quality.

mopepom: Thank you very much for this excellent tutorial. It has reduced my learning curve very substantially. It should be well publicized by the Linux community. I will have to examine why my cursor behaviour is so difficult. It may be something to do with the fact that my Windows cursor is a multi-coloured animated arrow. Also. I found that the VMWare window often minimized unexpectedly, without any encouragement from me. Just a minor irritant. It seems to run the ubuntu system at a very slow speed. Is this due to the virtualization?

Edward: The more memory you have, the better virtualization experience you will have. I have 1 GB on a 1.667 GHz Windows XP machine and can run applications such as OpenOffice inside my virtual Ubuntu machine comfortably.

Edward: Hmm, never seen that. When you created your virtual machine (section 4) did you set the hard drive exactly as shown in step 10? And what happens when you click manual here, what options are you given?

stevezygote: Not to worry. I suceeded. I had to go back and forth a number of times until the software recognized the hardware I think. I HAVE created a new virtual machine for the second installation of Ubuntu. I still have the first one on disc. How do I go about deleting the first one?

Edward: You have to delete it in VMware (right-click delete) and then delete it physically on the disk, all of the files for the machine (about 12 or so) are in the directory that you specified while creating it.

Edward: Hmmm, I would move your TV next to your monitor and keep an eye on it. Perhaps the screensaver went on it and it couldn't refresh the box? And what CD exactly, we were using an ISO file here, not a CD, or do you have a Ubuntu CD that you are installing from?

Bence Richter [HUN]: Same problem what Geoff, cesar, Dan and Riaad had below this comment. You didn't allocated enough space for / (root partition). Szivesen

Bence Richter [HUN]: Of course, for this you need to chose the Manual partitioning, not the first option at chapter 7. Following partitions and sizes you need: /boot 32MB swap area 1024MB / (root partition) 3096MB /home 512MB 20th of February, 2008

Edward: There was some reason why I didn't install it here. I know on Suse there was always the problem that you had to compile it, then there wasn't the right gcc installed, etc. I basically use this installation of Ubuntu simply to always have access to a Linux command line when I need it, so VMware didn't give me any added features so I never installed it. I know in Windows XP virtual machines it helps a bit with the cut and paste and the screen resolution, etc.

Umair: Right click on windows desktop, select properties>Settings>Screen Resolution and then chose one that fits your requirement