On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:22:31PM +0530, Mehul Ved wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Jerry McAllister <jerr...@msu.edu> wrote: > > I don't know what Ubuntu does. > > What ubuntu does is > 1) Install ubuntu as a windows program > 2) Run the ubuntu installer as any other win32 installer > 3) Ubuntu is installed on a clean NTFS partition > 4) Use windows bootloader > So, you install and uninstall ubuntu from within windows. But, to > switch between windows and ubuntu you have to reboot. > This is what I have gathered from other people. I haven't used it > myself. Probably the wubi[1] page would have more information on this. > > 1. http://wubi-installer.org/faq.php#internals
Thanks for the explanation. I would rather have FreeBSD installed on a good UFS2 slice than an NTFS partition. I would much rather have it cleanly separate from MS-Win - not even booting it. I don't want my FreeBSD system dragged down by MS baggage. ////jerry > > -- > > Twenty Percent of Zero is Better than Nothing. -- Walt Kelly _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
