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Install Portable Ubuntu in windows PC
First you need to download latest version from here after downloading you can see the following details
File name:- Portable_Ubuntu.exe
File Size :- 438 MB (At the time of writing)
Project home page :- http://portableubuntu.sourceforge.net
After completing your download double-click to unpack it to a folder. On Vista or Windows 7, you’ll have to open your command
prompt as an administrator,For windows XP users you just launch a command prompt. Head to the folder where you extracted your Portable Ubuntu, and enter run_portable_ubuntu and hit Enter to launch the .bat script.
Portable Ubuntu Screenshots
Interesting.
well, I love the idea but does not work on 64bit windows 7.
Austin
Interesting… Thanks!
Doesn’t work at all on 32bit Vista Home Premium no matter what I do, and I’m thoroughly devastated because I am dog-tired of dual boot.
what is the default root/administrator password ?
the password is 123456 just found it
Interesting but what is the purpose?
So I just tried things out… Its kinda unfortunate that its 8.04… Also make sure you change the repository source cause it defaults to argentina. Also its kinda interesting that all the config files are commented in Spanish… But being that the default repo is in Argentina that makes sense.
Anyway it would be nice if the thing was newer and Nautilus supported tabbed browsing but you can’t pop up an see any of the windows file system so thats not all that useful.
Then finally most of the apps that I’d be using at work I just install natively in Windows.
Gvim - writing HDL code and what not
GIMP - editing pictures (although it does add the ability for me to use mogrify (but I have to move files between the worlds))
OO.o - Editing of office stuff when I don’t feel like using MS Office.
I guess maybe I could use it for evolution but… meh its not that fast…
I should also say the same thing holds true for all the gnome apps…
dia
Planner
GIMP
whatever you want they usually have a windows port too….
Does this include things outside of the gnome-stuffs, like the terminal and gcc?
I’m currently using cygwin, but cygwin doesn’t support valgrind…
Heather:
Give VirtualBox a try. I’m currently running Fedora 10 as a virtual machine under Vista Home Premium and it runs great. Will be running Ubuntu 9.04 as soon as the final release is out.
I’ve also run Windows XP under VMware on a Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop machine.
Doesn’t work with a 32-bit Vista. It says its missing trayrun.exe
@Brett
To see your Windows file system go to /mnt/C
to run on (32-bit) Vista:
add 2 lines to portable_ubuntu.bat:
cd “[location where you extracted portableubuntu]” (including the quotationmarks because of possible spaces in the path
c:
and run portable_ubuntu.bat with administratorrights.
I have downloaded both the Portable ubuntu Dos 4 and the lite Ubuntu dos 2 and both downloads do not include any “run_portable_ubuntu_Dos” file or anything that even resembles it so the instructions here are useless. I have tried all ways I can think of to install the software and no success because there just isnt a run file. I have tried to find out how to install it from other places on the net and they all say the same, there is a run file but there isn’t. Is there anyone who knows what they are talking about and knows how to actually install the software.
Same for me, I have also download the Portable Ubuntu and there is no “run_portable_ubuntu_Dos” file and no instructions on their page how to install!
@lettlurt
Extract the Zip file. Run pubuntu.exe from extracted Portable_Ubuntu_DOS folder.
Enjoy.
@glavin
I tried to run pubuntu.exe and it just freezes. could this be my firewall or is something else up?
I have Windows 7 64 bit, and am trying to run Portable Ubuntu Tres. It does not run, it just hangs with a permanent splash screen that says “Portable Ubuntu Remix” in the center of my display when pubuntu.exe is started.
Running as administrator does not change this behavior.