DownloadSquad.com Wrote:I'd wager that there are a huge number of Windows users who would probably be quite happy with Ubuntu Linux as their day-in day-out OS of choice. If only there were an easy way to try Ubuntu out on your windows machine without breaking anything, repartitioning or dealing with the diminished performance of a Live CD.

You're in luck. Wubi takes the hassle out of installing Ubuntu on a loopback file system located on your Windows partition, while making it bootable just like a real-deal Ubuntu install. In fact, it _is_ a real-deal Ubuntu install, albeit in a slightly unconventional manner. If you go glassy eyed at the word "loopback", don't worry.. it's just a fancy way of saying that your whole Ubuntu install is self-contained and stored in a single large file on your Windows drive.

via http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/05/10/...ows-users/

here is the official Wubi Site: http://www.cutlersoftware.com/ubuntusetu...index.html

(This post was last modified: 11/05/2007 04:23 AM by robertotron.)

Crazy - two OSes on one partiton?  Wow.


Linux is indeed limitless...

i think this is also good for those people who like me, are afraid of stuffing something up when setting up their PC for dual-booting XP (or Vista) with Ubuntu :D

I partitioned my HDD thoughtfully before installing anything, so I have plenty of free partitions :)

But yeah, you're certainly correct.

Either case, installing Linux alongside Windows on a single partition is pretty insane...

I'll try this soon, because its in its BETA stage still, I'll wait until it is stable, because i don't want it fcuking my Laptop up. but when it is stable, I'm definately downloading this :D

That is pretty cool. MS released their Virtual PC to the public a while back and it does the same thing basically.

I'd still rather have a real linux install.

cool this is tempting me to try it

Nice, might install it now.

linux For the win
saved me money, rather than buying an expensive sever OS, just stuffed in Fedora Core Server lmao

theres one thing I'm not sure of with this program, do you have to have the ubuntu.iso file? because i thought that linux would be big. i have the .iso but i don't know if or how to use this with Wubi