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. http://skydrive.live.com/welcome.aspx?provision=1?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_skydrive_102008