Wubi

[Josh Coffman]

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 <jjzeidner at gmail.com> 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
> <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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> >> > Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:19:47 -0700
> >> > From: pickell at gmail.com
> >> > To: plug-discuss at 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
> >> > <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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> >> > called patience and forbearance.
> >> > -Friedrich Nietzsche
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > 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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