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07-05-2010 2:23 PM
We definitely need ej here!
I've not tried installing Linux within Windows (other than limited success with VMWare - must try that again - I forget the details.)
Have you had a look at any on-line tutorials, Scylla? There's a slightly dated one here:
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/wubi.html
Although there may have been a few changes, it looks as if at least a couple of reboots take place for the installation to complete. These probably need to be monitored, as they involve boot choices.
I'm also wondering whether it would help to choose to install to drive C, in case your E drive has been written as an unbootable partition - really not sure whether this would affect Wubi or not, but worth a thought, perhaps.
I'm chuffed that you've got the USB live install working - great way of trying things out. You've probably figured it by now, anyway, but if you look along the top of the desktop, go System > Preferences > Keyboard - self explanatory from there.
And wireless connection is definitely one of the things I like about Ubuntu/Mint - usually just works.
Although I was tempted to give Wubi a try, it dawned on me that it could just bork this installation (Windows 2000 on one drive, with Ubuntu 9.04 and Mint7 on a larger drive - I'm still not sure how the heck I eventually got them all booting reliably). As a result, I'm having a try on a W2K installed within Mint (using VirtualBox) on an even lower spec machine - which only has 3/4 gig of RAM. Really not sure whether the whole thing will run will 384mb of this allocated to VirtualBox - but that's the minimum requirement given in the Wubi site.
And I've not figured out how to make my VBox installation see USBs, so I'm having to let Wubi download the Ubuntu iso. It's taking forever. I'll let you know if it works - need to go out now, but hopefully, I'll have a bash this evening.
Perhaps g-c and ej would comment on running Linux within windows or vice-versa. I'm not sure which is the best way round - but running one in a virtual machine at least allows you to run both Windows and Linux simultaneously.
I've not tried installing Linux within Windows (other than limited success with VMWare - must try that again - I forget the details.)
Have you had a look at any on-line tutorials, Scylla? There's a slightly dated one here:
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/wubi.html
Although there may have been a few changes, it looks as if at least a couple of reboots take place for the installation to complete. These probably need to be monitored, as they involve boot choices.
I'm also wondering whether it would help to choose to install to drive C, in case your E drive has been written as an unbootable partition - really not sure whether this would affect Wubi or not, but worth a thought, perhaps.
I'm chuffed that you've got the USB live install working - great way of trying things out. You've probably figured it by now, anyway, but if you look along the top of the desktop, go System > Preferences > Keyboard - self explanatory from there.
And wireless connection is definitely one of the things I like about Ubuntu/Mint - usually just works.
Although I was tempted to give Wubi a try, it dawned on me that it could just bork this installation (Windows 2000 on one drive, with Ubuntu 9.04 and Mint7 on a larger drive - I'm still not sure how the heck I eventually got them all booting reliably). As a result, I'm having a try on a W2K installed within Mint (using VirtualBox) on an even lower spec machine - which only has 3/4 gig of RAM. Really not sure whether the whole thing will run will 384mb of this allocated to VirtualBox - but that's the minimum requirement given in the Wubi site.
And I've not figured out how to make my VBox installation see USBs, so I'm having to let Wubi download the Ubuntu iso. It's taking forever. I'll let you know if it works - need to go out now, but hopefully, I'll have a bash this evening.
Perhaps g-c and ej would comment on running Linux within windows or vice-versa. I'm not sure which is the best way round - but running one in a virtual machine at least allows you to run both Windows and Linux simultaneously.
