I have in the past used the ubuntu live CD. The other day I was listening to a tech show on the internet, and the host was talking about a program in which you can put unbuntu on your pc without partitioning the hhd or using vmware. I listen and watch so much on tech on the internet that I can't remember which show I heard it on. Now this program as I mentioned before doesn't use vmware. It apparently will download Ubuntu from the internet, and place it in a file on your pc. When booting the pc it will ask if you want to run windows xp or ubuntu. If this helps it only runs on an xp machine, not vista so far. The only other thing I remember is that it had a strange name. I can't remember if I heard it on twit, techzilla, systm, Dltv, etc... Any help would be appreciated. Really looking forward to messing around with ubuntu, in a safe functional manner, that I just can't do from the live cd. Thanks Dave.

Check the History of your browser to find out what you were listening to.

Wubi? http://wubi-installer.org/

Wubi is not a like some of the old ways like Zip-Slack. Wubi does mess with your boot manager.

I think you should consider MS's Virtual PC, VirtualBox or Vmware's products before you try a dual boot.

If you insist, be sure you understand how to recover your data before you begin.

"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, are in my top 10

Thanks a great deal arochester. I would have checked my browser history, but use crap cleaner on occasion, unfortunately I used it on this occasion. Thanks again that is just what I was looking for.

I recommend Wubi. You run the program & it automatically downloads the correct version of Ubuntu. This is about 700mb.

It creates an extra line in the windows boot ini file.

If you want to remove it, you do so from the add/remove programs in windows.

if you are worried out messing up your boot manager, ghost the partition.

http://wubi-installer.org/

Before posting try google. Backup. Use anti virus software.

Wubi is it.

What it does is very clever... it downloads the Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu ISO to your hard drive, and essentially installs it inside a virtual filesystem on your drive. You don't need to repartition everything, and when you boot into linux it feels and looks just like the real thing. much faster than running it in a 'virtual machine' and just a hair slower than if you'd installed it the old fashioned way. Also, when you use Wubi, disk access is said to be a tad slower, and hibernation is disabled. Other than that, it's real linux. I use it because Linux bitches whenever I try to install it the traditional way because I have only an external USB cd drive.

Better yet, if you no longer want wubi/linux, you simply uninstall it from Windows like any other program!

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