Lisa, I think Dan and Judd are describing a situation where they *don't* use Wubi. to my knowledge, Wubi does not repartition the drive. -jmz On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > Yes, > > There are quite a few similar experiences with Wubi failures on the Ubuntu > forums. > > http://wapedia.mobi/en/Obnosis | > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:obnosis | Obnosis.com (503)754-4452 > ________________________________ > ________________________________ > Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:19:47 -0700 > From: pickell@gmail.com > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > Subject: Re: Wubi > > For some reason it wouldn't repartition the drive on a Dell E1505 laptop. I > used Acronis Disk Director and resized it manually. Then Intrepid (Ubuntu) > installed without issue. Just pointing out that it doesn't always work from > the live cd. > > Sincerely, > Judd Pickell > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Dan Lund > wrote: > > Use the Live CD as the install media instead, that's my suggestion. > It does give the option of resizing the partitions during the install. > That's why I was questioning why even use a windows version installer. > Only reason I can think of is if you just don't want to burn a CD. > > Thanks, > Dan Lund > > To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so > many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - > because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too > cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are > called patience and forbearance. > -Friedrich Nietzsche > > > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:09 AM, der.hans wrote: >> Use a live CD to dd the boot sector to a file, then put it back if it >> the install gets horked? > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > ________________________________ > Store, manage and share up to 5GB with Windows Live SkyDrive. Start > uploading now > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss