Hi folks-

You may remember me as the one who wanted to "enslave" Windows to Ubuntu using VMWare Player. I just could not understand how to do it.

So for now, at least, I would ask for some help in writing my present Ubuntu configuration to an ISO, and then putting that onto the hard drive with Windows on it and double-boot.

Thanks.

What do you mean Do you want to dual boot? if so then you'll need to resize the the windows partition and then copy the data over to a new partition.

It's actually all beside the point now, but I would like to know how to do it if I decide to in the future.

My other threads show that I wanted to try to learn how to install Windoze "enslaved" to Ubuntu, that is, run it as a program in VMWare Player. But I just could not figure out or find out how to do that, so I just gave up. Today my BIOS or Windoze boot was acting up, and I know that reinstalling Windoze usually corrects that. So I reinstalled Windoze to the hard drive I had my Ubuntu on, because I felt totally dead-ended with Ubuntu.

So, to answer your question fully-

After I installed Ubuntu and got the add-ons and tweaks I wanted, I wanted to try to run Windoze under Ubuntu using VMWare Player rather than dual-boot. I couldn't figure out how to do that.

So then I was thinking that if I could write my specific personal Ubuntu configuration (with the add-ons and tweaks) as an ISO on a CD, I could at least partition the drive with Windoze and, as you say, install it with the intention of dual-booting. So my question had to do with copying the data over to a new partition, using an ISO copy of my Ubuntu configuration. But I finally got so frustrated with Ubuntu and Liunux that I just reinstalled Windoze to that drive in order to correct the BIOS or boot error.

I'm not going to bad-mouth Ubuntu or Linux, but I would guess that the use of Linux is going to be self-limiting, to people who want to or need to go through the very frustrating experience of learning a whole new OS. Maybe at the age of 54 I just don't have the patience to learn a whole new OS. But I would guess that until Linux becomes a whole lot more user-friendly, like with a better GUI, and minimizing or eliminating the command-line stuff, people just won't be inclined to change. I was just tired of looking at Windoze and wanted a change. Then I got tired of being dead-ended with Ubuntu and Linux, so I went back to Windoze. Again, I think it's going to be too esoteric for a lot of people. It was for me. For viruses, AVAST works just fine. For a firewall, ZoneAlarm works just fine. And now that Gates has started to give some of his money away, there's less of a reason to be anti-Microsoft.