Wubi installer vs live CD

[Jared Norris]

On 4 July 2012 15:14, Nick Bikkal <29.whitesnake at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a question about the quality of installation. I installed Ubuntu
> 12.04 using wubi installer, through Windows XP. Many people suggested using
> a live CD. Is there any difference installing it one way or another? I now
> have an option - here in Japan - to get a live CD to get a live CD by
> getting a magazine. I'm going to suppose it's a standard Ubuntu installation
> in which I can choose English in the first screen.
>
> Any suggestions or recommendations?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Nick
>

I hate to say it but I've never had much luck with Wubi. If you're
ever going to use it as something other than "lets see what this does"
then I would really suggest that you set up a partition and do a real
install using the dual boot instructions [1]. Even if you're going to
use it as "lets just see what this does" I'd suggest a persistent
liveusb instead of Wubi.

Just recently I've had to spend days trying to recover a file system
after only finding out half way through the process it was installed
via Wubi. Granted, it wouldn't have taken this long had I known about
it to start with. In my experience though, adding another layer of
complexity to an issue is generally not the best way of teaching
people new things in my opinion.

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot

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Regards,

Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
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