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M$1 March 01, 2009 07:24 AM

How do I copy a WUBI Ubuntu installation from one Windows HD to a freshly-installed one?

I've got a 160 gig drive in my Winbox, part of which is taken up by a WUBI Ubuntu installation—Ubuntu living in a directory within my Windows partition.

I'm about to add a new 250 gig drive to my system, which will become my new "main" drive—I'll be installing Windows fresh, and reinstalling all my programs, and copying necessary data over from the old main drive. (See this question for the details on that.)

What I want to know is, what do I need to do to add the WUBI partition to boot? I'm hoping it will be as simple as just copying over the Ubuntu directory from the old to the new drive, then running WUBI and having it notice I've already got most of the necessary files there and just downloading the difference. Will it be?

Will the fact that I plan to up WUBI's allowed partition size (in fact, I can't even remember what the current one is) make any difference?

Any other advice?

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mdsanta

March 01, 2009 10:00 AM

for starters this thread @ ubuntu forums should be pretty helpful.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=438591

LVPM seems to be a program to transfer a virtual os such as wubi and copy all of its settings into a real partition of a hard drive or a whole other hard drive. Basic instructions seem to be like any other install of ubuntu. Run partition magic, create at least 2 partitions, one for the OS, the other for swap. Run LVPM choose the drive you wanna tranfer ubuntu to, and let it do its magic.

picture tutorial
http://lubi.sourceforge.net/lvpm.html

all data should remain intact and you might have to mess a bit with grub. to sort the booting sequence properly between os's. Don't believe size should matter, if it does, the program should be taking care of whatever needs to be changed to keep the os as intact as possible.

hope that helps.

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robotech_m...

March 01, 2009 01:10 PM

Thing is, I'm planning to keep it in a "virtual" partition. A directory. Not make a new partition for it. Would that program still work?

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mdsanta

March 01, 2009 10:50 PM

If that is the case you can just save your "./home" folder. Install wubi on the new drive with os and transfer your old folder into the new one. good luck buddy.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=653156
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#Can%20I%20back%20up%20the%20installation%20files?

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