On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com> wrote: > I could easily be wrong about WUBI. I have never actually used it, but I, > for some reason, had the impression that it used the same file system, and > not a disk image... Using a disk image is much less impressive... > Now you got me wondering and I had to look it up. Prepare to be unimpressed. Wubi adds an entry to the Windows boot menu which allows the user to run Linux. Ubuntu is installed within a file in the Windows file system (c:\ubuntu\disks\root.disk), as opposed to being installed within its own partition. This file is seen by Linux as a real hard disk. Wubi also creates a swap file in the Windows file system (c:\ubuntu\disks\swap.disk), in addition to the memory of the host machine. This file is seen by Ubuntu as additional RAM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_(Ubuntu_installer) -- Michael Moore -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140311/0a87eee6/attachment-0001.html>