[ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

[Glen Mehn]

  On 15/09/10 07:30, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
> what's that ment to do
>
Hi Jacob,

That should, I assume, bring up the boot menu, which means you should be 
able to boot to a USB stick.

The thing is, when you run via WUBI, you run in a container on an NTFS 
filesystem. That may sound like gobbledygook, but what it means is that 
linux will have no control over the fragmentation (are all the bits of 
the files in the same place on the disk) and you may suffer some 
performance limitations. Wubi's a good solution, but there's no way from 
within Wubi to directly install linux (someone shout if I'm wrong).

I think if you get a linux install from, say, pendrivelinux, and then 
use the f12 as suggested by Tommy, you'll be able to reinstall over your 
Windows 7, which is what you suggested you wanted to do.

Glen

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