finally installing ubuntu
Going on with my obsession to install Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon.
After going through these two hurdles.
I have found a solution to my DVD burner problem.
It’s called WUBI. (Windows Based Ubuntu Installer)
You can install Ubuntu while working on Windows.
“Wubi adds an entry to the Windows boot menu which allows you to run Linux.Ubuntu is installed within a file in the windows file system ( c:wubidiskssystem.virtual.disk ), this file is seen by Linux as a real hard disk.”
Hopefully this works.
Edit: Still not installed. Waiting for WUBI for Gutsy Gibbon to come out.
October 19, 2007 at 11:14 pm
g’luck …
October 20, 2007 at 12:47 am
gudluck!
October 20, 2007 at 12:48 pm
I haven’t heard About it before, Have to check on it. Thanx for Sharing ingay
October 20, 2007 at 2:44 pm
thanx man… i’ve been too lazy to go n get a CD-ROM to write the liveCD
this shud help make things easier…
October 20, 2007 at 2:55 pm
one question though, what if i create this virtual disk on my external HDD… wud it work?
October 20, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Umm…not so sure about that…btw the one your installing with WUBI right is 7.04…7.10 is the latest version…they havn’t made one for 7.10 (gutsy gibbon) yet…will be out in a week though…but you can still upgrade from 7.04…and yeah it’s a pretty cool application…make it a whole lot easier for everyone
October 20, 2007 at 6:47 pm
DOOOOOOOOOOOD! It works! Thanx a lot
No need to install any drivers either… i can either choose Ubuntu or Windows XP when i boot. Kewlio! N the best part is it runs from my portable baby
Thanx to u!
October 21, 2007 at 12:30 am
Gud luck man. Ubuntu is really nice. Even the partition manager during installation is quite easy. You could do simply ANYTHING with your disk partitions. It supports much more formats than windows.
Yea, ubuntu has some really cool apps coming with it. I likes the Open Office suite.
The worst point where windows sucks is that if you install windows AFTER installing ubuntu, windows will overwrite all the boot menu entries and you wont find ubuntu anymore. Great trick huh.
October 21, 2007 at 2:25 am
yeah i used edgy before and it wasn’t worth changing the os for yet…but you can change the boot.ini. file right…you have to make GRUB work again
October 21, 2007 at 6:21 am
there’s a lil problem though (which u’ll only face if installed Ubuntu on a portable HDD)… everytime i start the comp, i’ve to put the disk drive letter manually… it’s not much work really… but u know how lazy i am
anyway i jsut installed 7.04 as a test… when the new version of Wubi comes out i’m gonna install it on the local disk…
October 21, 2007 at 8:13 pm
http://wubi-installer.org/devel/minefields/Ubuntu-7.10-alpha.exe
October 21, 2007 at 11:08 pm
Yeah I’ve already checked that out…it’s buggy…and thing is it’s only for 64bit
October 23, 2007 at 3:49 pm
doood! we’ve been so stupid… this whole time there was an in-built Wubi installer in Ubuntu 7.10!!!!
just unzip the file after downloding (i got the amd 64 bit one).. n there it is!!!!hehehe
http://www.pcmech.com/article/wubi-installer-on-ubuntu-710-distro/
October 24, 2007 at 3:31 am
whoa…yo can’t b serious…then what the hell are those guys at ubuntuforums doing anyways…does it work?!?