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Ubuntu 8.04 startup question

Asked by Gan17

Hi, all

I'm new to Linux and was born a noob, so bear with me.

I installed Ubuntu 8.04LTS (32bit) on my sister's laptop using WUBI. It runs great and all hardware was detected (after updates), but the startup/boot time takes around 45 seconds. That's slower than Vista. It's pretty responsive after boot-up, though. I've disabled all the unneeded startup functions in the 'sessions' and 'services' menus (bluetooth, print applet....etc).

The laptop is an Acer Aspire (4715Z) with Pentium dual-core T2390 1.86GHz, 1gb RAM and Intel built in Graphics.

It takes around 20 seconds on my own laptop (Fujitsu), but mine has a Core 2 Duo with 2gb RAM... and Ubuntu is the only OS on it (no WUBI).

Is the startup slowness due to installing it within Windows with WUBI, or is there something else at work here?

If yes, what are the actual trade-offs that come with WUBI compared to installing it on a partition.... with regards to boot time and and responsiveness? (I already know that suspend and hibernate won't work with WUBI)

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Old_Soldier (charles.davis) said : 		#1

honestly if you wish to use Ubuntu on a regular basis i would definitely go with a "real" installation. on my older machines my boot time is less than 30 seconds and newer machines have been able to boot in about 15-20 seconds.

If you dual boot to a real partition Windows can be made to read and write to your linux partition by installing a special driver. I'm pretty sure that as it stands now windows can't read files stored in a Wubi install of Ubuntu. Additionally installing on "real" ext3 partitions is a bit "safer" for your data. If you have problems with the diak it is easier to recover your data or repair your filesystem. An additional benefit is that you can resize your partitions quite easily using the gparted live cd so you can "tweak" your installations disk footprint as you grow more comfortable and use Ubuntu more.

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Gan17 (lithium-17-gan) said : 		#2

Like I stated earlier, it's my sister's computer. Using WUBI would enable her to remove it easily if she desires in future.

So I gather the slow startup is attributed to it being a WUBI installation, right.