converting from win7

Bill Wright pegasus at sc.rr.com
Thu Dec 30 23:56:41 UTC 2010


WUBI is VM software which runs within Win7. I have done it and it works 
great giving your GF a choice of WIN or Ubuntu, if she does not like 
Linux simply uninstal in Add remove programs




On 12/30/2010 05:24 PM, Verde Denim wrote:
> Hi, all
> Hope the holidays are going well for everyone. My girlfriend asked me 
> put a trial of ubuntu on her desktop system so she have a go at it to 
> see if switching to Ubuntu would work for her. She has a Sony Vaio 
> All-In-One. I grabbed 10.10 from the Ubuntu site and burned it.
> When I loaded the disc it asked me automagically to run wubi (never 
> seen that before). I tried booting from the disc, but first got a kb 
> failure, and then, after the initial bootup sequence, the screen 
> simply goes black. I went back and took the Wubi option, which, after 
> the install, asked to reboot to complete the installation. I got the 
> same results. Since the graphic card seems to be compatible (checked 
> both ubuntu and linuxhardware), I'm wondering about this box. I've 
> never seen a system that Ubuntu couldn't be installed on, live cd or 
> otherwise. Has anyone gotten Ubuntu installed on an all-in-one system 
> and was there anything different that I'd need on the boot line to get 
> this started? Thanks, as always, for the input...
> If it matters, the model is Sony VAIO PCV-A1111L.
>
> Jack


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