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VERY GOOD FIND! Posting this on my blog later today.

Why not just run Ubuntu under a Virtual server (a la VMWare)?

Great stuff. Much love for the intro music.

Ubuntu does automagically as long as it's on the 2nd hd.

AND WE'RE BACK!

How come it wasn't a surprise when I saw what these two guys looked like? Good video, very useful, but talk about reinforcing Linux-nerd stereotypes!

Beautiful! I'll be setting one of these up this weekend!

Two things. First, VMWare is giving away their Virtual Machine player, so you can run Ubuntu on your Windows desktop easily. r00t3d0ut already mentioned this.

Secondly, Ubuntu and Kubuntu both offer free "live cds". You can boot to the live CD, run Ubuntu and see if you like it without touching the hard drive.

Still, a great video. :)

"must be the constant sitting and snacking"

That video is funny as hell. Dugg

That's the easy part ... someone make me a video of setting up the ndiswrappers for my wireless card and I'll be happy ;)

vmware is slow as hell.. I can't believe anyone seriously suggested it.

^^ no schitt. I'm not really familiar with compiling stuff and have been looking high and low for a guide to do that on an old laptop I have Fedora on. That's the only thing I can't do. Beleive it or not, the only *nix distro where wireless worked out of the box was Linspire 5. I am using a D-Link GWL-650 if anyone cares to help.

Beleive it or not, the only *nix distro where wireless worked out of the box was Linspire 5. I am using a D-Link GWL-650 if anyone cares to help.

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

Thanks for the comment guys. Never would I have thought that a video I made would make it to digg's front page. I need to put the bloopers reel up on google.

as much as you think they wouldn't be, they're wrong about the bootable flag, it does nothing, windows xp will steal it the next time you boot to it anyway.

if you install the boot loader to the master boot record it NEVER LOOKS at the bootable flags.

another video on installing software on ubuntu by the same guys: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5253052326994067125

re: ndiswrapper being difficult to use

Ubuntu and Kubuntu already provide the kernel modules by default. You can run 'sudo apt-get install ndisgtk' (or install ndisgtk using Synaptic) to get a GUI tool for configuring ndiswrapper. Shouldn't be too difficult.

Anyone have a link to a non-Google-flashed copy ?

Theses l33t hax0rs are totally gay

Now can some make a triple boot computer with OSX/Ubuntu/Windows. I want to switch on the fly also, oh can i also access my hard drive through all three.Thanks!

re: re: ndiswrapper being difficult to use

Ndiswrapper is not installed by default but is dead simple to install via synaptic or apt-get install ndiswrapper. They also support many open-source drivers for various chipsets. My Netgear wg311v2 was auto-detected and had the acx111 driver installed. While I admit that the acx111 driver it was a bit choppy and I opted to install ndiswrapper anyway there's something to be said for auto-installing drivers for my wireless card.

damnit thuban114 you mispelled 1337

the live CD is slow to boot, very slow

the video is way too long for my linking, and wastes too much time
if you can't figure out how install Ubuntu, you probably should not be playing around with Linux in the first place.

but, it's funny, so digg++

w0rd. VMWare/virtual pc are uber slow and can't be considered for any kind of real work, only to play around a bit.

Live CD's are also if you want to play around, but better than virtual pc's because it runs natively. A lot of RAM helps out here.

ndiswrapper just takes a bit of work, but its not that bad. When configured properly, you can never expect to even use your wireless card at full potential because it has to emulate the windows hardware api a bit, but you will never really use all the bandwith availible through wireless when surfing the net.

And most of all, these guys are nubs.

Cool find..vmware sucks

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Lame guys lol

So, am I the only one amazed at the size of the screen? Its as big as they are... and thats saying a lot. Dual booting Windows and Ubuntu is simple. digg for the screen though! good vid

VM Ware? Please...

The idea is not so you can run Ubuntu as an application on your windows box, it's so you can move from windows to linux. Anyone using Ubuntu isn't looking for an alternate solution to being owned by Microsoft.

Very cool. digggggit.

People actually need instructions on how to do this? I've done it myself with 2 different different Linux distros using 98 and XP. LAME POST.

If I'm trying to move to ubuntu, should I dual boot or load ubuntu as the primary OS and use VMWare to run XP? The only stuff I *need* windows for is .NET development (ASP.NET/SQL Server) and maybe to connect via VPN to my work's AD network. Would VMWare be able to handle the occasional windows session?

They have a second video "Installing Software on Ubuntu Linux" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5253052326994067125

OMG... if you seriously need a Video Tutorial on how to install Ubuntu as a 2nd OS. Then you dont deserve to run Linux on your computer... Anyways, there is a MUCH easier way... and you wont have to reinstall Windows. Run Partition Magic, partition 5 or more gigs off your HD with windows on it. Then just Run the Ubuntu DVD, and make sure you install it to the partition you just created... done. VERY SIMPLE, AN 8 YEAR OLD CAN FIGURE IT OUT. But, not to dis on the video, casue it was funny to watch.. but you could have done it a better, simpler way... I'll dig it :)

Creepy!!! I was right in the middle of adding Ubuntu to an XP install on another PC when I found this!!!! JD

And to answer ghelton question, yes you can run 3 OS's. I run Windows XP:Media Edition, Ubuntu 5.10, and MacOSx86. You can access any information on your HD from any OS. Which is nice if you want to listen to music and not have to have 3 copies of the same music :). It was VERY simple to do...

i suck at linux and i was able to do this with no tutorial.

i tried runing ubuntu on vmware and virutal pc, its slow like *****!
and it doesnt detect video settings or sound. atleast for me. but id still use this video to do ubuntu

Those guys are hippies.

anybody know abt USB booting?

I'd love to run Ubuntu on my laptop but it's lack of WPA-PKS, LEAP, or PEAP pevents me. It's not even on Ubuntu's priority list for up comming features. This is why Linux on the desktop/Laptop has a long way to go before it will become an enterprise application. WEP just wont cut it..

Oh wow, I just received my free ubuntu CD's on Monday, and it came with both a Live CD and an installation CD. So far, I've only used the Live Cd, because I didn't understand how the Boot loader would recognize Win. XP. I also couldn't get sound to work on the Live CD, and yeah the Live CD is slow as hell. Thanks for this video tutorial, it's gonna help if dual boot XP and Ubuntu.

Um... Is this supposed to be hard? I've done this without help (anyone can doe this).

Snore! Do we really need a tutorial for installing ubuntu? We might as well have a back up tutorial on how to watch this movie.

They should have went into more detail about the file systems, I know there are many people out there that would be ***** to find out they cant access their ntfs drive from linux or the other way around (without installing hard to find programs).

@dashifen try kanotix it makes setting up a wireless card child's play

www.kanotix.com

Awesome, nice to see a video made by some of my fellow WVU ACM members make the front page of digg.

Wow. A VIDEO tutorial explaining how to follow on-screen instructions in a graphical set-up wizard! WOW!

Lame.

Snore! Do we really need a tutorial for installing ubuntu?

Uh, maybe not you, but there are lots of people out there who are interested in trying Linux and I for one appreciate someone taking the time to make a video. It would have been very nice to have something like that available when I was first experimenting with dual-boot.

More help for newbies and less RTFM from the l33t squad would be nice.

Righteous props to the video makers. Keep 'em coming.

hey! they have the same atx case i have. and thx deadlyhunter for the kanotix tip, because my wlan card wont work for ***** on ubuntu...