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@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
>
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> because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too
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> called patience and forbearance.
> -Friedrich Nietzsche
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:09 AM, der.hans <PLUGd@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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