Moving Away from Wubi

[Ubun2to]

The live CD will find and use any existing swap partition... I don't think a normal install will do the same thing.

Also, it won't be set up for hibernation - you'll have to do that manually which is a (little bit of a) pain.

What was the error?

Anyway - with that much RAM you won't notice it at first. Once you've got everything working fine I can assist with your setup of the swap if you need help. Kind of curious though why it didn't work though!

Well, I'm out of the live CD now, so I can't post the error message.
I don't plan to do hibernation-I've heard it can be really unreliable. I'm currently using the tutorial on the SwapFaq page.
Edit: I found out how to utilize the swap space.
I was in GParted, right clicked on my swap space, and selected "Swapon."
I then went to terminal and typed in:

free -m

And, I got this:

                    total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:                7979       7261        717          0         35       1911
-/+ buffers/cache:  5314       2665
Swap:              16378          0      16378

So, my swap isn't being used at the moment, but it's nice to know it's there when I need it.