Wubi

[Joshua Zeidner]

 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
<josh at computeristsolutions.com> 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 <jjzeidner at gmail.com> 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 <lisakachold at obnosis.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Yes,
>> >
>> > There are quite a few similar experiences with Wubi failures on the
>> > Ubuntu
>> > forums.
>> >
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>> > 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
>> > <situationalawareness at gmail.com>
>> > 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
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>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:09 AM, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:
>> >> Use a live CD to dd the boot sector to a file, then put it back if it
>> >> the install gets horked?
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