Install Ubuntu from Windows

[Robert Hodgins]

On Thu, 2008-24-01 at 14:53 -0900, Bob Cortez wrote:
> Anyone have any experience using WUBI?
> http://wubi-installer.org/index.php
> 
> I found this article
> 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 had a laptop with a CD drive. The BIOS wouldn't allow booting from the
drive, though. On the CD (somewhere) was a wubi program that copied some
files to the laptop's hard drive and then I could boot Ubuntu 7.10
easily.