Freebased VM's Got any?

The corrupted scrren you posted is the classic 24-bit colour depth bug that you get when installing Linux into a Virtual Machine. Have a look at my post in 'The pain of a Linux newbie', think it's on page 3, where there is a link to an article explaining how to get round this

As I have above states


he needs to install using text mode and convert his graphics to install using 16 bit mode to fix it

Yup, tried and failed, seems to get further but the text setup screens are off the screen so i cannot see whats going on.

The post you said about the screens i thougth you meant in VirtualPC, i was looking everywhere to change the screen type, lol

Infact, i really must be missing something here, i cannot even get the text to display properly. Think i saw a link in the great article TheBishop found explaining VirtualPC2007 a little better so gonna go and read that.

This is as far as i have got;

Doh, i cannot read simple instructions, missed out the bit that tells you to press F4 first to select your display type.........

Is it sorted now?