[Deleted] Quote from: davidonpda on July 29, 2010, 11:40:06 PM
Make him a virtual box container and upload it or mail him a disk. Then all he needs to do is install vbox and run it.
Google found me http://virtualboxes.org/images/ubuntu/
Maybe head for item 3 for http://downloads.sourceforge.net/virtualboximage/ubuntu-8.04-x86.7z (505Mb download, for a 2.67Gb uncompressed image)