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Pungh0Li0
September 13th, 2009, 12:39 AM
Right now, I'm dual booting WinXP and Win7 RC in separate partitions.
If I "Install inside windows" to the Win7 partition will it replace the Windows 7 install (but leave my other data)?

Thanks, Joe

presence1960
September 13th, 2009, 02:42 AM
Right now, I'm dual booting WinXP and Win7 RC in separate partitions.
If I "Install inside windows" to the Win7 partition will it replace the Windows 7 install (but leave my other data)?

Thanks, Joe

NO! It will add Ubuntu to a file within your Windows filesystem. it is just as you said "install inside windows". See here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wubi) for more info.

for more technical info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_(installer)

Pungh0Li0
September 13th, 2009, 03:12 AM
Yeah, that's what I figured.
I guess I'll clear the partition and format.

Thanks, Joe