I used to have a problem: I needed Windows XP for my educational issues and I needed Ubuntu for some personal purposes. I thought about some kind of virtual machines like VirtualBox or Virtual PC, but each of them makes my laptop work slower. And I found WUBI....
WUBI is some kind of *buntu installer which makes the installation process very easy. You can use it when you want to install and manage the *buntu from your Windows. So how to do it? It's really simple. I did it in this way:
1) I had created an ISO file of my *buntu and I mounted it as a drive in Windows
2) I created a new directory (lets say d:\Linux) where I placed iso of my system and corresponding wubi.exe file (taken from this CD)
3) I ran the wubi.exe and choose parameters for my Linux installation
4) In case of any error I chose "Continue"
5) I restarted my laptop at the end of installation
6) From boot menu I chose Ubuntu and I followed by its messages
That's all :)
For me it's really helpful tool which prevents you from partitioning and resizing of your disk.
There is a few cons of the wubi installer and linux installation done in this way:
- some time wubi wants to download a new iso file from the net despite the fact that (according to the wubiguide) there is an ISO file insode of directory contains wubi.exe
- access to hard disk is a little bit slower because there is no native linux file system but file system created by Windows.
Using wubi is up to you but in my opinion it's very great tool and it makes that number of people using this great operation system will be bigger and bigger...
And last but not least.... you can remove the linux installed by using wubi from the Control Panel of your Windows....Great, doesn't it? :)
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