Comments on: Ubuntu Edgy under Parallels Desktop for mac

By: CR Linefeed » Blog Archive » Playing with Parallels

CR Linefeed » Blog Archive » Playing with Parallels — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:30:33 +0000

[...] I’ve been playing with Parallels on my Intel Mac at home. Overall I’m impressed – I managed to get both Windows XP and Ubuntu Edgy set up without too much bother. For Ubuntu I followed these instructions from the Muffin Research Labs (great name too!). For XP I had a bit of a hiccup. I was installing from a Home Edition CD which includes SP2. I found that the install froze at the “Installing Devices – 33 minutes left” stage. However, by simply stopping and restarted the VM it finished off the install no problem. Looks like this has hit one or two others. [...]

By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:39:36 +0000

@Adam: Thanks for the link that’s brilliant, I’ll update accordingly.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:04:43 +0000

Found the fix for the splash screen…

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=286870
and then from there, you can also install more informative ones like the one that came with dapper.