djs_tx, normally i run FBSD, but i decided to go step by step with VMWARE/Ubuntu on my Winblows server2003 system. I did all the commands as said in the first part of this thread. I got stuck... and I noticed instructions said to type "sudo root ....", ubuntu was not recognizing that... so I did "sudo su ...blah..." and it worked perfectly, and proceeded to next step as said in the instructions... odd huh! :P