Gag. Please do the Linux community a nice service by not even bothering to try and debug this setup.

Instead, pull down a Ubuntu ISO image and boot from that (inside your PC emulator or whatever you called it).

It should boot up to a full GUI, with no questions asked.
If that works, then just click on the "Install" icon from the desktop that it presents you with.

Linux doesn't have to be almost as difficult to install as Windows, but some vendors seem to go out of their way to make it so.

Cheers