Call me kooky

So I’m installing 8.04 in vmware, which presents some of it’s own challenges. The live enviroment gets going pretty quick, and has the usual polish you’d expect from ubuntu. The only annoying thing is that it has no network connection. This may be due to vmware though, we’ll see how the full install goes. The other glitch I’ve noticed is the timezone map being all crazy. This has been reported all over the net already so I was expecting it. Since I’m on the west coast I normaly select Los Angles anyways and that’s usualy close to the default selection, thus making the map useless.

More thoughts latter.

Another thing I noticed, there’s no refresh rates. They’re all 0hz, this I’m pretty sure comes from the vmware video driver stuff. Still a bit annoying though.

Well….. the install is just sitting there….. doing nothing as far as I can tell. Not sure if it’s dead or not. It might be having problems getting going due to the fact that vmware is emulating scsi disk…

Yup, locked up. Odd. We’ll try ide discs.

Hrmmm…. got it installed on ide discs but selected “install ubuntu” from the boot menu. Going ok so far.

Can’t get vmware tools installed yet, ls has also crapped out on me but this might be because of the software update.

Vmware tools won’t compile, this is fixable but I can’t remember how to do it right now.  ls is still wonked out, I’ll have to look into that.  Oddly it’s installing fine onto the scsi disc now, not sure what that was.