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@obnosis.com> wrote:
> Yes,
>
> There are quite a few similar experiences with Wubi failures on the Ubuntu
> forums.
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> 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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>
> 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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