<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...<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Michael Moore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stuporglue@gmail.com" target="_blank">stuporglue@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:14 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"><div>I believe WUBI does this somehow. That's ubuntu running on Windows...<br>
</div>Jeff<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I was under the impression that WUBI installed most of Linux to a disk image within Windows, with just enough outside of Windows to boot from the image. </div><div>
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</div><div>I might be wrong though, I only used WUBI once or twice. </div><div class=""><div><br></div><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 class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:12 AM, gregrwm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tclug1@whitleymott.net" target="_blank">tclug1@whitleymott.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><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><div dir="ltr">once upon a release there was an ability to install linux within an existing filesystem (eg vfat), without creating a separate partition, without creating a file to contain a virtual partition, and i don't think it ran with a ram based root filesystem either, rather it somehow contrived the extra filesystem data that wasn't provided by the underlying (eg if vfat) filesystem, and stored all files as files in that filesystem. does anyone know the terminology for this, and/or what distros/releases/versions can/could do it?<br>
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</div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I don't know if you're looking this far back, but I used to have to use Loadlin (<a href="http://www.linux.sh/loadlin.html" target="_blank">http://www.linux.sh/loadlin.html</a>) to boot Linux on old computers. You installed Linux along side DOS, booted DOS and then ran LINUX.BAT to boot Linux.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">On old Macs you could use <a href="http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/bootx/" target="_blank">http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/bootx/</a> to boot Linux from within Mac OS, but it required a separate partition for the Linux files. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">--</div><div class="gmail_extra">Michael Moore</div></div>
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