Sometimes ago, I try to install an Ubuntu Dapper on my VmWare server runing on Dapper as well. I spend a lot of time finding the right way to do it. Here are the steps I followed.

I first tried the normal process. I created the virtual machine and boot it up with the standard Ubuntu 6.06 Live CD. It didn’t succeed, the startup process was freezing at the “Adding live CD user …”. Then I tried the alternate install CD but in the middle of the installation process I got a message telling me that some file was corrupted. The check CD process from the install menu confirmed me that the CD was corrupted.

After having burned the alternate CD three times, and having always had the same corruption alert, I came to the conclusion that it couldn’t be the CD but the way the CD was read.

I then decided to boot the virtual machine with a ISO image of the CD (it’s an option in the VM settings) and … everything went smoothly.

I’m now ready to build a complete demo environment on a Ubuntu Virtua machine.