Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Just set this up through Win 7. Allowed it 20G, 30 minutes install including Nvidia drivers, flawless setup and dual booting.

I'm very impressed and it looks gorgeous, blazingly fast on my AMD64 dual core 5000 with 8G RAM.

A little tip:

If you get "Permission Denied" just set up a temp folder on C: drive, I called it Lucid, copy ISO into it and extract into the same folder. Run wubi.exe as Administrator...job done:cool

 

Did you install as wubi, or did you set up dual boot with Grub?

Thanks for the review.

 

I originally dual booted with Grub and then when back in Win 7 used EasyBCD 2.0 to change the boot loader. Still very impressed.

 

Thanks for the feedback BOOMM

Very useful as it made me realise my post was a little sketchy and that I should be clearer.

The install itself runs very competently. In Win7 it offers you a choice of how much space to use on the C: drive, (you could of course boot from the installation CD and install on a different partition. I was curious though as to how the process of installing within Windows would work, are we not Geek? :cool).

In some cases when installing from within Windows from the CD you will the message "Permission Denied". Alas taking ownership and changing permissions do not seem to help and anyway should not be attempted unless you are clear as to what you are doing.

This can be frustrating and could put users off as it appears impossible to install. There is however a workaround.

Create a temporary folder on your C: drive, as I said I called mine Lucid. Copy the ISO file into this folder and extract the ISO into the same folder. Right click on the wubi.exe and run as Administrator. The install will then proceed.

As to the bootloader question. I rebooted through Grub until I was happy with install, it worked very well and automatically made Win 7 the default boot option, (smart move).

Along with collinsl I am a fan of EasyBCD, I am a registered user and thus use 2.0 beta version but the current release is excellent. I ran that in Win7 and set the boot sequence etc to suit me. Job done.

So far I am still very impressed with this release of Ubuntu and will be installing it on some older machines for a couple of people to give them a new lease of life.

Apologies for the paucity of my review, I should know better, I've been here long enough :-o.

I am intending to install Fedora 13 as well in the next week or so and will do a similar review of the installation procedure.

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