Wubi review . part 2

continued from review part1
The most awaited 1gb ram came home in a nice package. I was very excited to experience fast performance, that I forgot one simple detail. Screwdriver to open the computer module. The screw is very small that none of my screwdrivers would fit. So I had to wait until yesterday to purchase a precision screwdriver set from walmart for 5$. Today morning, I opened the module at the back of my dell inspiron 600m laptop, and installed the new 1gb ram. starting windows showed me 1.5 gb of total RAM. "whew". Now I can continue the wubi ubuntu installation.

For the past few days, my windows client could not detect any wireless networks in range, and was asking me to switch on my radio, I tried to troubleshoot this for some time, but none worked. So I took my other laptop and searched in the net for ubuntu offline installation proceedure. I searched on my laptop and found the offline installation file, saved the exe file, and this offline iso file in the same folder, and started installing in 6gb space.

As the system rebooted, I went inside ubuntu, and the installation started. Last time the system hung when it was trying to install softwares for ubuntu. So I was biting my fingernails when the system started "installing softwares" proceedure.

1% completed
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"Please God, dont let it fail"
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"I will come to temple this weekend, if the installation goes smoothly"
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I am praying with mumbled sound
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"whew 25% completed, plz God take this through 100%."
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"It is in your hands God. plz plz plz dont fail me"
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I had a bit of relief, since I thought the rest will go on smoothly..
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still praying. Half completed. rest has to go
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beep
beep
Oh no, what now?
"SYSTEM IS IN CRITICAL TEMPERATURE. PROCEEDING TO SHUT DOWN. TERMINATING PROCESSES"

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

my mom comes out of the other room "what happened? did u fall down?"

I google on my other laptop to do something about this temperature and could not find anything relevant, so I use the old age method. Turning on fan-only on my A/C.

So, I tell my mom to take my kid Sanjay and go to the other room where it is warmer.
my mom asks me " are you feeling ok dear? because I see that you have gone crazy putting the A/C on when outside temperature is -22F

You see, I live in westmont, Illinois and the temperature outside is -1F and feels like -22F. Who in their senses will turn the A/C on in this weather?. I did .... for my laptop and love of linux.

Anyways, now I uninstalled again, and installed with 4gb space, because I dint want anything to go wrong now. I decided this is going to be the last try. If my stupid system cant install ubuntu this time? after all these work of adding more memory, putting the A/C on, and using the least memory possible 4gb, if it still cant install, then probably my system does not have the right to have ubuntu. yes, thats right, Oh system, you deserve this punishment. hahaha (villaneous laughter).

What else do you expect me to say? I have uninstalled and installed about 25 times. If it still doesnt make it, I will have to live with windows, and find another way to use linux.

Ok, so I threaten my lappy, pray to God, touch my lucky charm, and reboot.

installing softwares
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good until now. last time, it went off at 53 % when it was installing telnet. Let me wait until 53%
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I touch the base to see if it gets heated up. no. still warm only
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laptop still warm. good.
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laptop still warm. still praying
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here it comes
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whew. Good going
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I take the laptop from the table and hold it in my hands careful so that its base is not touching anything. hehe I just wanted the cpu not to overheat.
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plz God install this successfully
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just one more to go
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yuppie... hurray
oh no what is this? another bar
ok finishing installation. good good

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why is this pausing at 83% for a long time.?
Still holding the laptop in my hands.
oh no
System proceeding to shut down
GREAT JUST GREAT.

I gave you my ultimatum, and this is your choice. thats it. no more wubi for you. bad lappy.

When the system rebotted, it directly went into windows os. I went to the drive and placed my mouse over the uninstall icon.

wait a minute. it said finishing installation. may be it finished and restarted. ok let me give this a try. I rebooted and clicked ubuntu this time.

HURRAY.. GREAT GOD. THANK YOU THANK YOU

kubuntu started and asked for user name password. and it went in. I was so happy that I shouted again YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS, and my mom came out from the otehr room and asked again " are you alright?"

So I explored kubuntu for a while, and found that internet was not working, since it was a problem in windows os itself. I tested hello world in c++, python, perl and found them running.

After 3 hours of struggle, I finally installed kubuntu, and it is now up and running.