been out for a few days because of this:

tried installing it 4 times on vmware workstation 12, nothing it always fails when i try to partition the drive and install the GRUB loader. if i can't get it to work, how can i learn it? it's an endless cycle!

i even looked up tutorials and any i tried always failed with GRUB!

i'm going to try and get it up and running on a physical system and see if i can get it to work...