On Wed, 20 May 2009 10:31:41 +0100, Sean Miller <s...@seanmiller.net> 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 to use a Wubi install last night as my father's computer's DVD drive is failing and I was too tired at the time to mess about doing anything else. The use-case scenarios might be limited in number, but they do exist. Daniel -- Humanity is where the falling angel meets the rising ape. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
