Portable Ubuntu

[Evan Dandrea]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:52 AM, ago <agostino.russo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried to use colinux with a wubi image and it works with little
> changes (I had to modify fstab and networking). Even though  a
> different kernel was installed originally in the wubi image, the
> required modules (2.6.22) were added at boot time from another file,
> vmlinux-modules.tar.gz.
>
> If that is desired, it should be possible to have wubi also install
> colinux capabilities in parallel with a dual boot set-up, where both
> grub2 and colinux point to the same root image (although there might
> be issues with some configurations). In terms of UI, that could be
> achieved without having to provide another installation option. A
> possible menu entry for said set-up might be:
>
> Start > Ubuntu > Run Ubuntu Applications
> Start > Ubuntu > Reboot Into Ubuntu
> Start > Ubuntu > Uninstall
>
> PS: You might be interested in http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/UbuntuBase
>
> Ago

Agostino and I spoke about this yesterday, and while I agree that the
functionality makes sense as part of Wubi, I had some concern over how we
present this to the user.  However, I think this idea of adding a "reboot into
Ubuntu" start menu entry is a good first step, and suggest that we, as
suggested, make this part of Wubi in the Karmic cycle if there are no further
objections.

If it's decided that always using colinux is undesirable, may I suggest that
we title the option to enable it "Make my Ubuntu applications and documents
accessible from Windows."

Thanks,
Evan