the F12 options are PCMIA cdrom, hard disk and network boot

On 15 September 2010 08:33, Glen Mehn <glen.m...@oba.co.uk> wrote:

>  On 15/09/10 07:30, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
>
>> what's that ment to do
>>
>> Hi Jacob,
>
> That should, I assume, bring up the boot menu, which means you should be
> able to boot to a USB stick.
>
> The thing is, when you run via WUBI, you run in a container on an NTFS
> filesystem. That may sound like gobbledygook, but what it means is that
> linux will have no control over the fragmentation (are all the bits of the
> files in the same place on the disk) and you may suffer some performance
> limitations. Wubi's a good solution, but there's no way from within Wubi to
> directly install linux (someone shout if I'm wrong).
>
> I think if you get a linux install from, say, pendrivelinux, and then use
> the f12 as suggested by Tommy, you'll be able to reinstall over your Windows
> 7, which is what you suggested you wanted to do.
>
> Glen
>
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