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Mini-Review: Wubi - Painless, partion-free WindowsXP/Ubuntu dual bootingWubi - Painless, partion-free WindowsXP/Ubuntu dual booting
Wubi is an Ubuntu installer that you run from inside Windows. It installs Ubuntu to a virtual disk file without making any changes to your partitions or doing any formats. As such, it should be completely safe to install. Since it is utilizing a virtual disk file on your hard drive, it has the advantage over live cds of retaining changes, installations, etc through rebooting of the system and allowing you to install as much as you want as long as you have the hard drive space to spare. It also boots considerably faster than a live cd, and is almost as fast as a regular installation. Unlike live cds, however, it does take up hard drive space and obviously leaves traces behind. The Wubi program is a mere 9.9mb, but you will need the most recent ubuntu alternate iso. You can either download it youself and put it in the same directory as Wubi before you run it, or you can have the program download it for you. I chose to download it myself from a close mirror rather than letting the program download it. ... |
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