Sean Miller wrote: > I don't understand why you would have had know anything about > partitioning, John - the Ubuntu installer will do that for you. > > You just tell it how much space you want to allocate to Ubuntu and it > "steals" it out of the free space on the existing partition. > > I am just a subscriber to the "keep it simple" way of thinking, and > adding an extra layer of complication (as Wubi does) seems to have no > great advantage. > > Don't get me wrong! The Wubi developers can probably feel very > pleased with themselves that they've done it, it's an achievement, but > quite why they bothered I don't know. They could have been creating > something that actually had a use, other than to install the same > Ubuntu in a different place. > > I have tried Wubi about 4 times on this laptop and others and every > time it's been an absolute disaster, so I guess I'm jaded. Some > systems clearly like it and others do not. > > Sean > > I had a disaster on this machine with the partition, and the update just before 9.04. It just crashed everytime I got to the log on page. I tried to install the 9.04 over the top, and instead of it doing that, I ended up with 3 partitions. I had to reformat the hard drive in the end. I'm running Wubi on two machines now, plus the to from other people and its running really smoothly. The one I just installed that started this thread, is even better than my own machines, so I have different experience.
I wish I could run it via a partition, I am finding it really frustrating, but I just am not experienced enough. John. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
