Ok, I downloded the two. But upon installing VM, I got a pop up saying it might not play well with XP.... Whats the deal? I reversed the installation for the moment.

I use Sun Virtualbox and it works amazing and it'* easy to use.

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtu...-69151-Win.exe

After install, make a virtual hdd and just point the software to the Ubuntu ISO that you download.

X2 Jon

Do I need to extract the Linux before I chose it or leave it compressed in the file I downloaded?

Hopefully you downloaded an ISO, in which case do not decompress it. SVB will mount it just like a cdrom drive.

I downloaded the link given and placed it on my desktop, it says it'* an ISO 9660 Joliet archive file.

Jon, the link you provided gave me the same file Stelth'* link did, and I repeat, my XP says "not compatible". So WTH???? Frustrated and have alot of fate of several forums and web sites on this computer. Thinking its not a good idea.

open virtual Box and click on the storage on the right, Mount the image there and then start the machine

it will install the image and install it

Does anybody read here. I get a XP non compatable warning BEFORE I install the VM

yea John, I'd back out too. I don't know what the compatability issues are