Yeah, I put 'wubi' on my wife's laptop for awhile. I agree with Andy, about Virtualbox. Having to select an OS at boot time makes it unappealing to use the other. I like Linux better but I would surf on my wife's Vista install unless I really *NEEDED* access to my Linux tools.<br>
<br>Ultimately, I took out Wubi and I barely use Cygwin on that machine any more. I created a Virtualbox install of something light (e.g. Arch, Xubunu, Puppy) but I don't recall which distro. XFCE was plenty for my needs -- like a couple desktops, browser and terminals.<br>
<br>It's awesome, IMHO. I don't even pay attention to her setup, except for when I'm fixing it. I just go straight to my Linux box within her Vista.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Weber, Lawrence A <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Lawrence.Weber@ansaldo-sts.us">Lawrence.Weber@ansaldo-sts.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span>Has anyone tried
wubi to set up a PC running Windows so it can "boot" into Ubuntu
Linux?</span></font></div>
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