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jarble
March 2nd, 2011, 02:45 AM
Is it possible to increase the disk space for a Wubi installation?
bcbc
March 2nd, 2011, 03:32 AM
It's possible http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1625371

Most people recommend moving to a regular Ubuntu (partition) install if you intend to use Ubuntu permanently. Wubi is great to try out. It's possible to migrate wubi to partition: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1519354
jarble
March 3rd, 2011, 02:09 AM
The last time I tried setting up an Ubuntu partition, my Windows partition remained installed but became unusable, and some of my computer's hardware didn't work with Ubuntu. Is there any straightforward, fail-proof way to prevent this from happening again?
bcbc
March 3rd, 2011, 03:50 AM
The last time I tried setting up an Ubuntu partition, my Windows partition remained installed but became unusable, and some of my computer's hardware didn't work with Ubuntu. Is there any straightforward, fail-proof way to prevent this from happening again?

Hard to say - since I don't know what was wrong. If hardware doesn't work it shouldn't make a difference whether it's wubi or normal.

There's nothing wrong with using wubi as long as you 1) lock the grub-* packages and 2) backup anything you can't afford to lose (that's good practice anyway, but the wubi root.disk is less reliable than a true partition)