Wubi

[Joshua Zeidner]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Josh Coffman
<josh at computeristsolutions.com> wrote:
> 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.


  thats my current situation.

>
> 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,


  Get Thee To A Nunnery!


> 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.


 basically I dont want to take any chances, Wubi seems like a failsafe
Ubuntu install option. jmz



>
> -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
>> >> > 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 <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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