Install Ubuntu from Windows

[steve]

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Bob Cortez wrote:
| Anyone have any experience using WUBI? http://wubi-installer.org/index.php
|
| I found this article
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Install-Ubuntu-from-Windows-in-3-Steps-Without-Using-a-CD-61304.shtml

| and it seems almost too easy, too good to be true.  I took the plunge
| and I'm using it to install on an XP box that isn't mission critical.
| But I'm thinking about using it to install ubuntu on a friends new Vista
| laptop.  Any gotcha's I should know about?  Thanks in advance.
|
| Bob
|

I would be more inclined to trust vmware or virtualbox.  I have no
experience nor heard of "wubi", but I can guess if its built for windows
and its free, that its most likely laced with spyware.  If your pc isnt
fast enough to be able to run virtual, then just use the ubuntu
partioning tool on the live cd during the install.  It works perfectly.






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Steve Reilly

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