Run your EXISTING Windows Installation on Ubuntu with Vmware Player

[mtyoung]

Where did you see a reference to SATA drives?

If true that's bad for me since I wanted to install it on a SATA drive. 
Now I have Ubuntu on an old 20G ATA drive I, and XP on a 160G SATA. I 
wanted to install the latest Ubuntu on another 200G SATA (I'm still 
running 6.04)

Re: Digg. Save yourself some time and just read the linux section.
http://digg.com/linux_unix

Derek Broughton wrote:
> having trouble installing VMWare-server (it says there's already an
> installation, which there isn't and never has been)
>   
> I have, I couldn't figure out how to do it purely with VMPlayer, and I am
>
> What is it with "digg" and VMWare?  I'd never even heard of digg until I
> started googling for vmware stuff, and now practically every link is via
> digg.
>
> Anyway, the article looks pretty good, but almost useless for me :-(  It
> will only work for IDE drives.  SATA drives are a more awkward beast.  
>