Wubi

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1519354

These are the steps required to manually migrate a wubi 9.10 or 10.04 install to partition (grub2 only).

The partition(s) must be created already - there are plenty of guides on how to do this. This example assumes the new install will be on /dev/sda5 and that there will be a swap on /dev/sda6. If there is no swap, just ignore lines containing /dev/sda6. If there is a swap partition it must be of type 'swap'. Change the device names as appropriate.

In this tutorial, the author will show you a really easy way to install wubi http://wubi-installer.org/

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1198406

This tutorial is meant to help all those who installed Wubi in Vista but did not get "Ubuntu" option in boot menu.

First you need to download and install EasyBCD: http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1024929

Step #10 (Reinstalling BootIT NG):
Reinstalling BootIT NG is necessary, though unfortunate. There is simply no way around it...at least if you want BootIT NG up and running again, which I will assume you do. Until you reinstall it, you will no longer be able to boot into the program at startup. This is due to the EMBR being overwritten, at least partially, by Grub, when transferring your Wubi install over to the dedicated partition with LVPM. At the moment, I know no workaround to this problem, though it may be possible, via the command line in Wubi, to instruct LVPM to install Grub to the boot sector of the partition, rather than to the MBR, though if there is, I don't know it at the moment. (If anyone has the solution to this, please let me know, and I will update my tutorial to describe this solution)

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1024929

Step #3 (Creating the necessary partitions):
This step is assuming that you successfully resized your main partition, and now have the pre-ordained size (in MBs) that you chopped off of the partition as “Free Space” in the space right below the partition that you resized, looking at the Partition Work window (Note that a gigabyte is approximately 1000 MBs, in the likely case that you are more familiar with judging size in terms of GBs rather than MBs).

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1024929

This is the complete tutorial for tri-booting Windows Vista, XP, and Wubi Ubuntu 8.10, using BootIT Next Generation (BING):

This is the only way to get the thoughts out of my head, and is a little something I typed up after spending a great deal of time attempting to tri-boot Win Vista (pre-installed), XP, and Ubuntu 8.10 using the BootIT NG partitioning program. In my case, it took very long to finally get it working, using the program...but only because I did not previously fully understand the process of dual-booting, or in my case triple booting!

Question:

I am using wubi 8.04 on a SSD drive. I was wondering if wubi uses swap, and if it does, how can I turn it off? I have 4 gigs of RAM and the SSD should be fast enough to keep up with no swap. I already have my swappiness set to 0, but I would just rather cut it off. Thanks.

Question:

Hi All,

I would like to try Wubi installer for Ubuntu. I have following queries before installing it

1. does it replace the boot loader with grub
2. or ubuntu runs as a seperate window inside my OS

Question:

Wubi helped me get Xubuntu installed on my Averatec 3200! Unfortunately, the xorg.conf created during the install doesn't work for me and the install fails when it tries to start X. I can manually FIX the xorg.conf and start X windows -- but the install still is not complete. So the next time I boot, it goes through the install from the beginning again and I have lost all changes I have made to the hard disk.

What do I need to do to get the Xubuntu install to continue after I correct the xorg.conf? I need it to update the boot instructions to NOT re-install.

Thanks for any help!

Answer:

Question:

The difference between resize home or root in wubi?

Answer:

To resize your disk please take a look at http://lubi.sourceforge.net/lvpm.html

See the section on "Resizing virtual disks using LVPM".

And if you ask about the differences, here are the difference:

root ("/") is where all directories (including home) are attached. However, any directory can be physically present on any device.

For your purposes, a root partition of 10Gb is ample, if your "/home" partition is separate. Give your root partition a size of 10Gb, and the maximum available to "/home"

If you don't have separate "/" and "/home" partitions, then calculate the new size as this: 10Gb for root, and add to that how many ever Gb you need for your home partition.