converting from win7

[Verde Denim]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Bill Wright <pegasus at sc.rr.com> wrote:

>  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
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The problem is that after Wubi installs it asks for a reboot. A warm boot of
the system and selecting Ubuntu produces a black screen (no vid) at some
point through the bootup sequence. I'm trying to capture exactly where that
is occurring at the moment.

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> On 12/30/2010 05:24 PM, Verde Denim wrote:
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> 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.
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> Jack
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