You probably already know this much but with VMWare NAT is just that (your host is acting as the NAT device). You would have to have the interface on the virtual machine configured for dhcp.
That seems like the most simple and most effective solution. Unless an outside "attacker" can gain pyhsical access but at that point there's other problems.
Wouldn't the installation for Ubuntu format the partitions? I installed xfce the other day on ubuntu 10.04 and it did change the login screen but not much was different other than the login screen.
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We have received a HP Integrity Server rx3600 (itanium architecture) that came with HP-UX on it. The installation of HP-UX is "broken" and it hangs and will not boot. The server did not...