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Comment on Install Ubuntu 9 on Virtual PC 2007 by admin

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:29:30 +0000

All you need to do is press Right-Alt, (the one to the right of the space bar), and Enter at the same time.
Do the same to get out of full screen.

Comment on Install Ubuntu 9 on Virtual PC 2007 by Dan

Dan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:18:25 +0000

Hey,

Thanks for the post. This got me going. Now, how can I get full screen?

Dan

Comment on Install Ubuntu 9 on Virtual PC 2007 by usertron

usertron — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:22:59 +0000

ha ha ha … oh really?

Comment on Install Ubuntu 9 on Virtual PC 2007 by usertron

usertron — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:41:38 +0000

pss …
i had posted re: Ubuntu on VPC 2007, as the most recent posting was
Jan 8, and perhaps this isn’t completely off the road.
i thought i should add a note.
i created a 4gb virtual drive as a FIXED SIZE vd.
it therefore only contained 1 4GB partition. (DOS Formatted FAT32)
ram is set at 512MB.
upon booting to mounted CD (ISO), i selected English.
i then chose ‘Install Ubuntu’.
as Ubuntu Install automaticly ejects the cd …. the image is of course
released when Install asks to ‘Restart The Computer’ .

Comment on Install Ubuntu 9 on Virtual PC 2007 by usertron

usertron — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:24:54 +0000

i have known of a little trick re: anything LINUS.
you MUST have a DOS … (?!? yup DOS!) formatted partition as partition 1
on drive 1, before you begin installation. having created a 4 gb part,
formatted (FAT32) by loading a win98boot.ima for floppy, Ubuntu 9 installed using ONLY GUI and not even 1 keystroke at a ‘Command Prompt’.
! ;-}
ps … allow partitioner to allocate 100% … automagically …

Comment on Install Ubuntu 9 on Virtual PC 2007 by bill

bill — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:07:51 +0000

Hi folks,

I finally made mine work too. Thanks for the description of the Ubuntu installation. Some minor points I can share with everyone:

1. The download from Canada has some problems. I tried the US download and that was fine. I discovered the problem by booting the Ubuntu CD image in Virtual PC 2007 and running a test on the disk. Both 9.10 and 8.04 LTS had 1 file with an error. The US 9.10 was good.
I made a minimal attempt to contact Waterloo and/or Telus about the problem (just to soothe my concsience) but I didn’t succeed. Maybe someone there will read this post.

2. I still have to figure out how to increase my screen resolution. It sounds like the job involves editing a boot file and making finicky changes. I guess that describes pretty much everything you do in Linux (just kidding – I hope).
I eat Windows and DOS for breakfast. Linux is foreign food and it just takes me a lot longer to get something done.

3. This may be a dumb comment, but make sure you DON’T “Release the Ubuntu disk image” after installation has completed. I did, and that was the wrong thing – had to reinstall again.

Thanks,
Bill

Comment on Install Ubuntu 9 on Virtual PC 2007 – part trois by Corvus

Corvus — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:52:52 +0000

Thank you for you instructions! I followed them and it eliminated a lot of head scratching; Ubuntu installed perfectly. I do seems to have one problem though: there seems to be no mouse function in Ubuntu/virtual PC. There is no effect when I click within the window, the virtual PC does not ‘grab’ the cursor. I don’t know if this is an error in Ubuntu or in the virtual machine.

Thanks in advance!

-Corvus

Comment on Install Ubuntu 9 on Virtual PC 2007 by Lou

Lou — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:19:40 +0000

I had no problems whatsoever installing Ubuntu 9.1 under win7-64. However, Ubuntu cannot access my wireless card. This same wireless card runs flawlessly when Ubuntu is installed on a physical drive or partition (or as a live cd) on the same system. However, this card would not work with Ubuntu prior to version 9.04.

Lou

Comment on Install Ubuntu 9 on Virtual PC 2007 by phramusca

phramusca — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:04:45 +0000

@phramusca
I finally found out the solution for the screen resolution, by looking around on internet. I was modifying the proper file, but not properly.
Here is the solution:
Type Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get a console and login
Edit X config file:
$ sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
And replace content with:
Section “Device”
Identifier “Configured Video Device”
Driver “vesa”
BusID “PCI:0:8:0″
VideoRam 8192
EndSection

Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Configured Monitor”
Option “DPMS”
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 50-160
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Monitor “Configured Monitor”
Device “Configured Video Device”
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection “Display”
Depth 16
Virtual 1024 768
Modes “1024×768″
EndSubSection
EndSection

Comment on Install Ubuntu 9 on Virtual PC 2007 by phramusca

phramusca — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:18:10 +0000

Hi,

Also, anyone knows how to have the mouse scroll to work ?