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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ron,

I'm no expert at Wubi, but from my distant memories of it, you could
actually 'tell' it where to get an iso from We had use this option until
Lubuntu was officially accepted.

As Nicholas has just done work on it today, I hope that he find time to
reply more fully if my memory has failed me!

Regards,

Phill.

On 9 August 2012 23:28, Ron Mitchell <rm2892@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm still attempting to find a way of installing Lubuntu AMD64+Mac to an
> external USB drive. There are all sorts of posts on the net dealing with
> efi and the issues associated with OS X Lion. To complicate things, as
> mentioned in a previous message, I have Bootcamp installed on my MacBook
> and through it, Windows 8 pre-release.
>
> I'm reluctant to touch my internal hard drive, hence the idea of using an
> external USB drive for testing Lubuntu.  However I've yet to find a way to
> make that work.
>
> A question.
>
> There is WUBI, which I've tried. The installation to my external USB drive
> appeared to go ok, but failed to boot on completion.
>
> I noticed that WUBI wanted to download a Lubuntu image from the net before
> installing, even though I already had the latest disk present in my DVD-Rom
> drive. Any reason for that?
>
> Cheers
> Ron Mitchell
>
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