Hey Everyone,
I'm getting a ThinkPad r61 in the mail in a couple of weeks (yay!) and I wanted to use it as a way to get to know Linux. I found Wubi and thought I'd get a little familiar with Ubuntu first before I dedicated a partition to it.
Thus, I installed it (8.04 beta) on my desktop (Win XP, AMD Athlon 64 x2 dual core 5000+. 2 gigs ram, GeForece 7900 GS). It installed fine, first started up fine (could choose Ubuntu with my keyboard), and everything worked on the desktop but the network connection (Belkin Wireless card maybe a prob? plus i have a kind of gatekeeper program i have to install to login to my university wireless).
Anyways, problem:
* After restarting back to XP to check my email, rebooting and trying to get back into Ubuntu - it did not work! My Keyboard does not function at the countdown screen, no the arrows, enter key or F8. I can get into my BIOS beforehand fine and when it counts me down into XP it works fine after that. Arg!
My general adjunct question is why would anyone want to have a dedicated partition/dual boot etc when Wubi seems safer and less complicated? Whats the advantage?
Thanks for reading through this. I look forward to getting my hands into a Linux distro finally after about 5 years of daring myself to do it.
--Justin
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