Doug LaRue wrote:
** Reply to message from Marieke Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 08 Jun
2008 08:58:45 -0700
I don't know if there is a Wubi that is compatible with Vista.
That was just too easy. Google for "ubuntu vista wubi" and you'll find
your answer.
I was trying to give ideas rather than do something for somebody. I
didn't mean to upset or offend anybody.
However, Vista has a compatibility mode that might allow you to run
Wubi as an XP program.
No need if you look at the Ubuntu wubi infor found in the above search.
Yes. And Paul now knows something about Vista that wasn't obvious to me
at the beginning. I was soo happy when I figured this out.
IMO partitioning the disk is a good option.
A good option if you've ever done it before but most Windows users
have not since their systems were pre-loaded / pre-partitioned. Wubi
is just like installing a Windows application. It does require admin rights
because the installer needs to add a boot entry for Ubuntu.
1. The original poster seems reasonably savvy.
2. I may have gotten a rotten taste about Wubi from the guy who tried to
tell me that my problems would be solved by using Wubi instead of the
partitioning that I had already done. Of course he didn't stop to
consider that my problems were with my broadcom wireless chip set and my
new Nvidia card for which there was no good Linux driver at the time.
A suggestion that
was made to me at one time is to run linux on a USB drive. The person
who made that suggestion didn't know that I had a second hard drive on
the machine, so I used the second drive for my linux. I don't know how
well the USB option would work because of speed of access to the file
system and because you would probably have to work to have GRUB on your
hard drive rather than the USB drive.
A modern computer will boot from USB and because this thread subject says
"Vista", it is much much more likely to be a newer system. So, there is no
issue with putting GRUB on the HD for a USB boot. Performance will be much
slower than running with Wubi or raw HD installation.
OK. Thanks for the info. I hadn't done the tests so I wasn't sure, but
the idea of using other disks, even internal, is now out there too. I
also considered the annoyance factor of always having to have your usb
drive plugged into your machine to boot it as a bit of a problem. If it
were me, I would want GRUB on my hard drive in my machine, so I could
have the USB drive with my machine only when I wanted it there, not
every time I had to boot.
Again, Wubi.exe is going to be easier, safer, give near raw/partition
installation
performance. Since there are so many Windows users on this list, could someone
with some Linux installation skills run the Ubuntu/Kubuntu 8.04 Wubi
installation
and comment on this?
Yes that is the claim. However, the experiences of my embedded linux
classmates, seemed to indicate that this is machine dependent. Of course
this was last September or October so it was Wubi with Ubuntu 7.04 or
7.10 . Reading the website carefully could give you a good idea of how
well it is likely to run. I didn't try it because I had already
partitioned the disk and it seemed like a step backwards when I read the
Wubi website. BTW Last September or October the Wubi website claimed
that you could partition the disk to make a full Ubuntu install after
you ran Wubi.
Marieke
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