Alessandro17 Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu 8.04 released: http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04857 http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04858 http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04859 Funny that posting this news was left to a well known openSUSE fan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Wasn't this already posted somewhere? I remember reading something about a new feature in a Ubuntu bash thread, but maybe that was just coincidental timing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreakyMac Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 I'm running it on my HP desktop using Wubi lemme tell you this EVERYTHING FRIGGEN WORKS :] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted April 25, 2008 Author Share Posted April 25, 2008 Wasn't this already posted somewhere? Yes, it was posted almost everywhere on the web, but not in this site, that I am aware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 You know what's sweet about the Wubi installer? It installs Ubuntu on your partition, but it installs to a hard disk file rather than the whole partition so there are no MBR problems! Gonna install Ubuntu 8.04 with Wubi right now. Then add some Beryl-Compiz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keypox Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 You know what's sweet about the Wubi installer? It installs Ubuntu on your partition, but it installs to a hard disk file rather than the whole partition so there are no MBR problems! Gonna install Ubuntu 8.04 with Wubi right now. Then add some Beryl-Compiz really that is pretty sweet so i dont need to worry about doing anything or losing anything if i install it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Exactly! Just pop in the disc while your in windows, it starts up setup wizard, and install it like you were installing a program onto windows It creates a DSK file, thats where Ubuntu will live, and it won't do anything to Windows/your HD and partitions/MBR/bootloader and when you don't want it, you can just go into Windows and uninstall it from control panel like you were uninstalling a program. Genius I'm downloading 8.04 right now, installing it tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarterA Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 I just downloaded it and got it installed in Parallels. So far so good. I'm connected to the web perfectly...everything seems to be working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REVENGE Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Gheyness. New nvidia driver is broken on some machines (mine included). Fixit please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted April 25, 2008 Author Share Posted April 25, 2008 You know what's sweet about the Wubi installer? It installs Ubuntu on your partition, but it installs to a hard disk file rather than the whole partition so there are no MBR problems! That sounds like an interesting feature. I want to try it as well. Edit: it didn't work (I couldn't log into Ubuntu) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_cute Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Very VERY interesting feature...I am going to download this and see the news... @~pcwiz Despite my lack of interest in Windows,also this: you can just go into Windows and uninstall it from control panel like you were uninstalling a program @Alessandro17 Funny that posting this news was left to a well known openSUSE fan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted April 25, 2008 Author Share Posted April 25, 2008 @Alessandro17 :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Yes, it was posted almost everywhere on the web, but not in this site, that I am aware Haha, I was meaning here Must have just been good timing but the thread seems to be burried so who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmacintosh Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 So to log into Ubuntu, you have to boot into Windows first? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embio Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 no brightness adjust on my macbook CD, this works out of the box under Debian Lenny, Feisty and Gutsy, what the hell Canonical? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 I am not consider myself as Linux noob since I installed since firsts releases (slackware then) followed by a lot of redhat versions, and lost contact with latest distros until last year, I installed Kubuntu 7.10 on several PCs and now I don't know if is better to reinstall all new or make update of packages EDIT: Also does it worth to try the KDE 4 Remix? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apowerr Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Wubi is fantastic. I had quite the shock when I woke up this morning: a friend of mine who knows little about non-Windows OSs told me he had Ubuntu 8.04 installed. Wubi should help Ubuntu get more into the mainstream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmacintosh Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 So if you install 8.04 with Wubi will it not be available as an option at boot time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwaaku Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 have always been told to wait 1 month after a new distro is released. So that other people can iron out some of the bugs first. I did notice that when I recently re-installed Kubuntu Gutsy that my wireless card was active from the first update. It blew my mind as I had just ignored wireless until now, it certainly wasnt working before this week. If WPA2 on my card becomes possible I could use it without reconfiguring my router for WEP, think it will be long after the new Mini Mac arrives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 OK, I have Wubi Ubuntu installed and it works like a charm. Heres how it goes: * Put in the Ubuntu 8.04 CD (or mount the ISO) in Windows * An autorun screen comes up, choose the Install from Windows option (something like that, forgot exact wording) * Choose installation partition (just install to your Windows partition, all it does is create a folder on the partition with Ubuntu disk files inside, nothing else is modified) * Choose how much space you want to allocate to Ubuntu (I chose 15GB) * Enter a username and password for yourself * Install! The installation took little more than 5 minutes * Once its done, restart and the Windows Boot Manager will show up and there are 2 options, WIndows and Ubuntu, choose Ubuntu * It boots into Ubuntu and starts installing the system and configuring. Once thats done reboot and go back into Ubuntu again * This time you can log in with the username and password you entered when you installed * Voila, Ubuntu is installed! And if you want to remove it just go into Control Panel in Windows and remove it like you would remove a program P.S. Insanelymac looks absolutely terrible on FF 3b5 on Ubuntu, nearly everything on the page is in a Courier New font. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forceman Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 P.S. Insanelymac looks absolutely terrible on FF 3b5 on Ubuntu, nearly everything on the page is in a Courier New font. Untick the Preferences--->Content--->Advanced-->Allow pages to choose their own fonts, DejaVu Sans is a nice font to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmacintosh Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Thanks PCwiz - at the moment I have a triple-boot over two discs Vista and XP on disc 1 and OS X 10.5.2 on disc 2. These three all boot from the Vista bootloader using EasyBCD. I was going to install Ubuntu on the second partition on disc 2 (and grub on the same partition) then just make another entry in EasyBCD. The Wubi thing installing Ubuntu onto the Windows (Vista) partition was confusing me a little. But I guess from what you said it doesn't matter as either way the Vista bootloader will have another entry. The only difference would be the way I uninstall it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 This Wubi feature sounds really interesting. But does it work in OS X? Also it sounds like from what pcwiz has said it uses the Windows bootloaded if you install Wubi through Windows. Does that mean chain0 is needed to get OS X also working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deomitrus Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 Woah. I have to upgrade! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 Yeah, it adds an entry to the Windows bootloader. From that entry it loads GRUB (which is installed within the Ubuntu disk file, not your MBR) to boot Ubuntu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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