Well I wrote a couple of weeks ago about getting a dual-boot set up with my existing Windows XP box with Ubuntu on top. As I wrote here, that didn’t work out too well. Since then, I have been trying a couple on things but in the end, I think it was Ubuntu’s dislike of being on the second disk on my computer that did it in. I tried to let go of some of the free space on my first disk but apparently that isn’t happening. I still don’t know what is wrong with it.

A couple of days ago, I was introduced to the idea of running Ubuntu off of a VMWare image. I can’t believe that the thought never crossed my mind but it is so simple. I don’t have to mess around with any funky OS install and if I want to uninstall it, I can very easily.

So now I have Ubuntu running perfectly without any issues on my machine. You can get the image here. Give it a shot if you’re interested. I am really happy how this turned out for me and hopefully it will save you trouble in the future.

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