Installing Ubuntu From A Windows System With Wubi

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Submitted by falko (Contact Author) (Forums) on Tue, 2007-09-11 16:19. :: Ubuntu | Desktop

Installing Ubuntu From A Windows System With Wubi

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Author: Falko Timme <ft [at] falkotimme [dot] com>
Last edited 09/06/2007

Wubi is an Ubuntu installer for Windows that lets you install and uninstall Ubuntu from a Windows desktop. Wubi adds an entry to the Windows boot menu which allows you to run Linux. Ubuntu is installed within a file in the Windows file system (a loopmounted partition), this file is seen by Ubuntu as a real hard disk. That way the hard drive does not have to be repartitioned before the Ubuntu installation. The resulting Ubuntu installation is a "real" Linux system, not just a virtual machine. Wubi makes it easy for Linux newbies to play around with Ubuntu.

This document comes without warranty of any kind! I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

 

1 Preliminary Note

I have tested this on a Windows XP Professional desktop.

 

2 Downloading Wubi

Go to http://wubi-installer.org and click on the Download (Beta) button:

Download Wubi to a folder on your Windows system:


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A review of Wubi
Submitted by Anonymous (not registered) on Mon, 2009-03-30 23:37.

If anyone is not sure about if WUBi is for them or not, take alook at this review i wrote before you download:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1586391/wubi_windows_ubuntu_installer.html?cat=59

Or just give it a go since wubi is so easy, its not hard to remove if you dont like it.  

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UNetbootin does the job better
Submitted by kaidron (registered user) on Wed, 2007-09-26 21:40.
UNetbootin at http://lubi.sourceforge.net/unetbootin.html also does the same thing (installs Ubuntu from Windows without needing a CD), but unlike Wubi it installs to a real partition so you don't have to bother with the issues of a loop install. It also supports Fedora, openSuse, Mandriva, and Archlinux installation as well as Ubuntu.
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Install from Live CD?
Submitted by JonLeaman (registered user) on Thu, 2007-09-13 10:19.
Is there an option to install Ubuntu from the live CD, which I already have, rather than downloading the ISO?
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old idea
Submitted by Fletch229 (registered user) on Wed, 2007-09-12 04:33.
Puppy linux has been doing this for years now with pretty good success check it out http://www.puppylinux.org/user/downloads.php?cat_id=3
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no sure...
Submitted by bazy (registered user) on Tue, 2007-09-11 18:55.

Wooby is a fine and intelligent tool!

 My problem is that it's downloading the ISO from 147.175.167.205 (ubuntu.ynet.sk). It would be much better if you could chose a mirror closer to you.

 Critics ... can't live without them.  I have to say it again, it's a great tool!

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'changing the mirror that wubi downloads from'
Submitted by ubuntuuser1 (registered user) on Wed, 2007-09-12 16:06.

You can either:

1) edit the .metalink file in the wubi->install directory to only go to your nearest mirror (e.g. edit ubuntu-7.04-alternate-i386.iso.metalink in notepad)

or

2) manually download the .iso file from any mirror and put it in wubi->install (e.g download ubuntu-7.04-alternate-i386.iso)

 and then run wubi

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