<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Jeff Chapin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chapinjeff@gmail.com" target="_blank">chapinjeff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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...</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Now you got me wondering and I had to look it up. Prepare to be unimpressed.</div><br>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.<div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_(Ubuntu_installer)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_(Ubuntu_installer)</a> </div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Michael Moore</div></div></div></div>