Yesterday morning, I left the laptop with about 5 hours to go to complete the Wubi installation. I didn’t count on my Father-in-law coming over three hours later, using the laptop, and closing it – thus hibernating it. He had no idea (uses my wife’s login) and I was beside myself after 20+ hours invested [...]
OK, I couldn’t let it go. Back to the laptop, I decided to click on the Wubi installer again. One feature I didn’t mention is that it’s able to resume a cancelled installation. So it picked up again at about 24%. It’s also downloading at twice the speed it was this morning. Of course, zero [...]
Well that was unsatisfying. I tried the download on my little-used desktop after clearing 12.5 GB of space on it, and the downloads were similarly snail-ish. I killed it. I’ll dig on the Wubi site later, perhaps. But for now I quit. No Ubuntu for me today!
This update is short, since I abandoned the installation of Wubi. I let it run overnight last night, going to be with an estimated 28 hours remaining. When I woke up this morning, it was estimating 25 hours, and I guarantee I slept at least 7 hours. So I quit the install. I did check [...]
If you haven’t heard of Wubi, here’s a short explanation: Wubi is an Ubuntu Linux distribution that you install via a Windows installer package. Then you can boot into Ubuntu or Windows as you wish, or at least that’s my basic (and possibly flawed) understanding of what you get. I don’t think it’s a virtual [...]
