Us any linux instalable from windows?

[Edward78]

Ok so I was talking to my dad & he said you could. Not like the virtual drive stuff like winbutu does, a separate drive/partition. I know you can't just wanting a article to correct him.

 

[Edward78]

You can do it two ways:

1) By installing as a dual boot system so you have the choice of booting into either Linux or Windows. This ifs not strictly speaking increasing from windows itself though.

2) By installing in a virtual machine (VM) inside Windows. For example install Virtualbox in Windows and then install Linux as a guest OS under Virtualbox. That way you boot into Windows and then start Linux inside it.

Edit: There's a third way too. By installing Cygwin under Windows you can run Linux shell commands under it.

I'm afraid your dad won.

No he said you could install linux on a separate drive/partition from windows, I knew you couldn't

 

[Edward78]

You can using wubi, I have just installed ubuntu using this method.

That makes a virtual drive & puts Ubuntu into windows.