Wini is nice It drops Linux disk I o to that of windows. Install is quirky but overall its pretty nice And the uninstall is clean On 3/10/09, Mark Jarvis wrote: > > We recently obtained a used Dell notebook for my wife.  The DVD drive was > toast, so I bought an external/USB DVD drive to use. Wanting to test it on > some Linux things, I tried booting from an Ubuntu 8.10 Live CD. After it > failed to boot from the CD (no surprise), booting instead into Windows, the > Ubuntu 8.10 Live CD was still in the drive. After a while, the CD did an > autorun and offered to install as an application under windows--with two > caveats: 1) hibernation was disabled, and 2) "disk performance will be > slightly reduced." > > Questions: > > 1) Has anyone out there done this? > > 2) How well does it work? > > 3) Is disk performance under both Windows & Linux affected? How much? > > 4) When I'm through playing with it, does it uninstall cleanly? > > Thanks for any help, > > Mark Jarvis > -- Sent from my mobile device A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss