Linux installation question?

Question

I've been heavily considering the switch to Ubuntu Linux. Not only does it do everything I want it to do (minus emulation), but it's a more secure environment where I don't have to worry about installing Windows Vista again for the seventh time this month.

I installed Wubi (Ubuntu inside Windows) before, and it used the Restricted Drivers Manager to activate my wireless card. My question here is, that if I remove Windows from my laptop and install Ubuntu on the hard drive instead, will it still be able to pick up these drivers? Or will they not work since Windows is gone? I won't have any wireless internet if these drivers do not work.

Answer 1

You could either save the driver to a cd in wubi, then install, or connect via landline and access the repositories from there.

Answer 2

Yes you will still be able to use those drivers - what you might want to do is split up the drive into two partitions, one to keep your old windows installation and one for ubuntu, that way if you don't like ubuntu for whatever reason you can simply reboot and repartition your disk (using partition magic or whatever).