Wubi & new users
 

As a very new newbie, I was able to install Ubuntu*Hardy and*get it running*easier than installing earlier versions of Windows, Linux*and NT4., FWIW.
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Message: 13
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:41:08 -0400
From: Derek Broughton <news@pointerstop.ca>
Subject: Re: Inquiry
To: ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
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Eberhard Roloff wrote:
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> Derek Broughton wrote:
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>> Or even better for the trepidacious new user, slip the new disk into the
>> drive _while_ you're running Windows and the "Wubi" installer will create
>> a
>> file _inside_ your Windows partition and install Ubuntu into that.**Then
>> you can boot into either without trouble.
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> On a sidenote:
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> While I understand Wubi as a rather riskfree way to explore Linux, I
> never recommend Wubi or vmware/vbox installations to newcomers.
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> Imho these msolutions either depend on the power of the underlying
> windows or are nice but slow through emulation.
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huh?**Do you have a clue what either wubi or the virtual solutions are?
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Wubi provides a standard boot into linux on a loopback filesystem, where the
filesystem is a file on the NTFS partition.**The only remote hazard here is
that the filesystem is hosted on an NTFS partition.**Once installed, it has
no dependence on "the underlying windows" and it is slowed only as much as
I/O to any loopback system might be.
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I wouldn't suggest a virtual solution to newbies, but only because the setup
can be a little complicated - there's no reason at all it should be slow,
provided you have enough memory (on my wife's system, Windows on
virtualbox, itself, is as fast as Windows - unfortunately it takes so much
of her memory, that the host Ubuntu system is a pig...)
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derek
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