I've heard that rumor and that is why my Vista machine is not dual boot. Its a rumor that came from pre-release times.. I'm not sure its true though as there are plenty of stories about dual or triple booting with vista. I just haven't been brave enough to try it because that machine was my main dev box. Personally, I think of risk & cost before doing such a thing. I'm in a different situation than most on this list because I'm a windows programmer, which means losing windows on my dev box is/was a big risk for me. You could use gparted to image your machine to a backup location before trying wubi. It should be trivial to recover then if there was a problem. -j On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > rumor has it though that Vista does not play nicely with other boot > sectors. I dont feel like taking a chance at this point. > > -jmz > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Josh Coffman > wrote: > > Not having used wubi, I can't comment other than that I've never had a > > problem managing or fixing the boot sector. > > > > ya'll probably know the linux tools for fixing a boot sector better than > I > > do. > > To fix a windows boot sector just boot from the windows cd, drop to a > > command prompt and run "fixmbr" > > > > I've rarely had to do that myself, and I've been around the block as far > as > > dual booting and moving partitions around. Actually now that I think of > it, > > it might have been an earlier ubuntu distro that messed up my boot sector > > and I couldn't fix it with fixmbr. However, I was able to fix it with > the > > Fedora installer. That was the worst scenario that I've experienced and > it > > was fine other than the short lived panic. > > > > -j > > > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Joshua Zeidner > wrote: > >> > >> 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. 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