<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> 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: <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTimVH1ROaEm0ZKFObx4B6kWMHug4cHjXqgvuDHUE@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">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 <div style="visibility: hidden; left: -5000px; position: absolute; z-index: 9999; padding: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word; color: black; font-size: 10px; text-align: left; line-height: 130%;" id="avg_ls_inline_popup"> </div> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Linux Kubuntu V10.10</pre> </body> </html>