On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 17:11 +1200, Roy Britten wrote: > 2008/7/3 David Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Not sure who else might have been interested so i picked on you guys... I > > just did a new install of Ubuntu 8.04 today using wubi on a XP laptop... no > > messy partitioning, nothing tricky at all and it works like a dream. I've > > read old comments that its too slow to be a working install and only any > > good as trial install... that's not my experience. For me it seems to work > > just like a regular install. Highly recommended. > > I gave it a try a few weeks ago. > > A couple of gotchas I came across: > - the Ubuntu install reset my system (hardware) clock to UTC, which > caused problems when logging in to XP (network time and system time > were wildly different, and I was unable to log in until I'd reset the > clock in BIOS) > - if XP has suffered a hard shutdown the filesystem is marked as > unclean, and the Ubuntu system is unable to mount the filesystem until > it has been "cleaned" during the XP bot process. > > Otherwise very impressed. > > Cheers, > Roy.
I installed the kde version on a pc last night apart from a rather slow d/l speed (around 5 hrs) it installed a treat. Kerry
