I don't understand why you would have had know anything about partitioning, John - the Ubuntu installer will do that for you.
You just tell it how much space you want to allocate to Ubuntu and it "steals" it out of the free space on the existing partition. I am just a subscriber to the "keep it simple" way of thinking, and adding an extra layer of complication (as Wubi does) seems to have no great advantage. Don't get me wrong! The Wubi developers can probably feel very pleased with themselves that they've done it, it's an achievement, but quite why they bothered I don't know. They could have been creating something that actually had a use, other than to install the same Ubuntu in a different place. I have tried Wubi about 4 times on this laptop and others and every time it's been an absolute disaster, so I guess I'm jaded. Some systems clearly like it and others do not. Sean -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
