Expected Duration: Approximately 20 minutes 

Immediately after the setting up VMWare Server on my laptop, I proceeded to start my virtual machine from the Nero-burned CD copy of Ubuntu. The laptop defaulted to boot from the CD so I had to wait till the Ubuntu screen popped up before selecting ‘Install’.

Notes 

  1. Hold down ‘Ctrl-Alt’ to switch between the host and guest operating system - this is very helpful for moving your mouse between the two systems. Then press F11 to view the selected operating system in Full Screen.
  2. The installation process will include an option that says "Erase entire disk" or "Manually Partition Disk". As scary as erasing an entire disk may sound, that is actually the appropriate step to take.
  3. After installation is complete, restart the machine. Ubuntu CD should pop out automatically during the rebooting process so do not worry about removing the CD before clicking restart.
  4. Install software updates - For some reason, ‘libmagick9′ refused to install along with the three other updates so I continued with the updates that would install. Later, I was given the option to update libmagick9 and this time it was successful.

 

Voila!

Now on to Apache