Wubi

[Dan Lund]

This link might help if you are interested, it explains to use
"bcdedit.exe" to edit the boot sector data.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721886.aspx

This one from Ubuntu explains how to do it with Vista & XP
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot

This one will document the additions to add to Linux to run it
properly under a Virtual Server 2005 setup so you don't need to remove
the stable operating system already in place.  Unfortunately the only
linux distributions that are enterprise enough to run in such an
environment are officially Red Hat Enterprise 4 & 5 / Red Hat 9.0 and
SuSE 9.3 / 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bf12642f-77dc-4d45-ae4e-e1b05e0a2674&DisplayLang=en

Thanks,
Dan Lund

If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway,
and should fix your program.
--Linus Torvalds, Original Inventor of the Linux kernel
August, 2006



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.
>
> 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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>> >> > (503)754-4452
>> >> > ________________________________
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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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