New User support

[Darcy Casselman]

Incidentally, even though I say "I'd like to do this," I wouldn't be
unhappy if someone else went ahead and did it themselves. :)

Darcy.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Darcy Casselman <dscassel at gmail.com> wrote:
> If I had more time, I'd really like to throw together an information
> sheet to hand out with CDs that would talk about stuff like this and
> provide links to Ubuntu Canada and other community resources.  Handing
> someone a CD is great, but I feel like it's setting a lot of people
> adrift a bit.
>
> But if they just pop it in their Windows machine, yeah, WUBI will
> autorun. And that's great. I don't think most people even think about
> booting from CDs.
>
> Darcy.
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Leigh Honeywell <leigh at hypatia.ca> wrote:
>> On 11-06-16 10:54 AM, Ralph Janke wrote:
>>>
>>> On 06/16/2011 10:50 AM, Leigh Honeywell wrote:
>>>>
>>>> You can install via Wubi from any Ubuntu desktop CD. No USB key
>>>> required:)
>>>
>>> I think the usb stick is for running liveCD from usb. The reason liveCD
>>> is so slow, is the slow access from the CD.
>>
>> I realize that, Ralph :)  I was just pointing out that even until we can
>> hand out bootable USB keys, Wubi is still installable from the CD.
>>
>> -Leigh
>>
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