EBC Exercise 07 Notes on Installing Ubuntu in VMware Player - Revision history

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‎Manually Installing with ISO

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+'''This is rather out of date''', but still may be useful.  Please edit if you have thinks to add.
 It's pretty much agreed that if you are going to develop for embedded Linux, you should do it in Linux.  The problem is many have some form of Windows OS installed.  Here are step by step instructions on how to install a virtual machine running Ubuntu Linux on your Windows box.
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 The Ubuntu wiki has by far the best directions on how to do this
 [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware/Tools Ubuntu VMWare Tools]

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 #Go to [http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmmanager here] and get '''VMmanager''',
 #install and run it.
-#Select "Creat a new virtual machine"
+#Select "Create a new virtual machine"
 #Select Operating System:  Linux
 #Below Select:  Ubuntu Linux

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 # Select "Unlock"
 # Enter ''40960''
-# Tab Finish
+# Tab Finish, if it says "the size of the hard disk is too large" and indicates the maximum hard disk you can have is 8 GB, go to 'vmmanager.ini' file and change the paramter 'maxHDsize' defined within it. You may change this parameter within the range from 100 MB up to 972800 MB.
 # Click "Ok".  It should quickly say it is finished.
 Here is a video of [http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yoder/eLinux/videos/Run_VMmanager2.swf running]] VMmanager the second time.

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	It's pretty much agreed that if you are going to develop for embedded Linux, you should do it in Linux. The problem is many have some form of Windows OS installed. Here are step by step instructions on how to install a virtual machine running Ubuntu Linux on your Windows box.		It's pretty much agreed that if you are going to develop for embedded Linux, you should do it in Linux. The problem is many have some form of Windows OS installed. Here are step by step instructions on how to install a virtual machine running Ubuntu Linux on your Windows box.

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 == Getting Ubuntu and installing it ==
 ==== Manually Installing with ISO ====
-Next get the Ubunutu image and install it in the machine.  I'm using 9.10.
+Next get the Ubunutu image and install it in the machine.  I'm using 10.4 LTS since it's required by some of the TI tools.
 #You can get the Ubuntu iso image [http://www.ubuntu.com/ here]; however it's faster for Rose students to get a copy locally from [http://lug.rose-hulman.edu/mirror/ubuntu-releases/ lug] or [ftp://ftp.csse.rose-hulman.edu/ubuntu-releases/ csse].  If you aren't sure which iso to get, look for '''ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso'''.
 #Click on the vm you created above (*.vmx). The VMware Player should start.