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The way Bob's suggesting is actually pretty easy... It sounds more complicated than it is. I was going to suggest the same, but was waiting for someone to suggest a "Windows-way" so that it wouldn't just sound like I was promoting Linux (again). :) As a shortcut to learning how to mount...
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Boot from any Linux LiveCD, copy off any files on it you need, then open a terminal prompt and enter dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX BE SURE TO REPLACE 'X' in the above line with the proper letter. If in doubt, unplug the thumbdrive, plug it back in, wait a second and type "dmesg | grep sd"...
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Hmmm... that's kind of weird - it looks like it's saying your /tmp path is mounted read-only. It might just be a security issue though - did you use 'sudo'? Reboot the VM, use the "Devices/Install Guest Additions" menu option to mount the additions ISO (if it isn't already...
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The only problem I see so far is that at login/logout, the screenmode doesn't always change to the proper mode for gdm... so you get garbage instead of the login screen. I'll probably do some more testing and file a bug against the VBox video driver for it. Here's the workaround for that...
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Also, it does indeed look like Compiz works under 3.0: Just make sure you install the Linux guest additions, then you'll be able to turn it on under appearance.
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Hey Bob, I decided to try installing from the latest daily Ubuntu LiveCD myself, to see if I could recreate your problem. The good(?) news is: I did run into an installation-stopping issue, but I found a way around it. It looks as if Ubiquity may have some new bug related to ecryptfs. This caused the...
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I'm pretty sure that what Bob meant to say is "Linux wouldn't need those drivers."