I'm sorry for taking this thread a little offtopic, but I need some help here. Turns out every PC I want to install Ubuntu on has a problem with it. And every PC that I need to keep windows on boots Ubuntu amazingly well. This one in question takes almost an hour to get to the installer, and then fifteen minutes between each step. So I thought maybe a pen drive would do better (P4 2.4Ghz, 256MB RAM, 40GB HDD).
Anyway, in OS X, I can "restore" an image (ISO/DMG) to a hard drive. It's how I installed Leopard (restored Leopard image to external HDD). This should work for ubuntu as well right?
(That tutorial is for doing it in Linux..)