The only missing part here is the study of wubi and minimal CD I am sure after you study both the things you will be convinced that you need to create a separate partition on your windows machine and start installing from minimal CD or if you dont want to create a partition do as wubi says. Better luck for your stuff Chaitanya Parekh <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Amedee Van Gasse <<a href="mailto:amedee-ubuntu@amedee.be">amedee-ubuntu@amedee.be</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I have this laptop with Windows on it, and I would like to install Ubuntu on it, using Wubi. I have zero experience with Wubi. According to the WubiGuide (<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide</a>) I need the desktop cd. The thing is, I don't want a full desktop. I just want a barebones installation, as described on <a href="http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/minimal" target="_blank">http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/minimal</a> and I need a minimal cd to do that. The Wubi guide states that any other image is unsupported, but how should I interpret that? A: We are 100% sure that it won't work and you will surely break stuff if you try it anyway. B: We only tested it with the desktop cd because of time constraints, it may work with another image, but you're on your own if it blows up in your face. Anything I found concerning Wubi and alternate cd dates from 2008 or earlier, from the time when Wubi was not yet an official part of Ubuntu. Any comments before I try this? Amedee -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Chaitanya Parekh Enjay - Bhilad