Hands on With Wubi
For what Wubi claims to be able to do, I’m somewhat surprised that I haven’t heard more about it. Basically, you can install Ubuntu from Windows and then boot to Linux or Windows without having to do any kind of Grub trickery or anything. Wubi even changes your boot.ini files so that you can choose between booting to Windows or Linux. It’s like having your cake and eating it too!
My first question, and I’m sure I’m not alone here, is how does it work? Wubi works by creating a stand-alone installation inside of a loopmounted device. A loopmounted device is a fancy word for a file that is recognized as a device. So basically Ubuntu thinks that it is running from a Live CD when it is actually running from a hard drive. Some have described Wubi as a virtual machine. This is not the case. No other partitions are created on your hard drive.
So, let’s get down to it. What I intend to do is install Wubi and document my experience along the way. So without further delay, let’s get to work.
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