9.04 installer and dual booting

[Jamie Griffin]

David Fox wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Jamie Griffin <jpg at gmx.com> wrote:
>   
>> Has anyone tried dual booting 9.04 with vista yet? I did an install
>> earlier today and noticed what i thought to be a new option in the
>>     
>
> Not exactly. When I installed Ubuntu on my Fujitsu laptop that came
> preinstalled with Vista, I did the install a quick and dirty way in
> that I didn't repartition the drive at all. I just stuck the CD in the
> drive, booted up Vista, ran the installer in Vista and it carved out a
> "disk" of the appropriate size, and a few minutes later it was done. I
> was actually surprised how well it worked.
>
> Only later did I upgrade (through update-manager -d) to Jaunty on the laptop.
>
> So in a sense, I do dual-boot Jaunty with Vista, but perhaps not in
> the way you expect.
>
>
>
>   
Yeah, when i sent that message i wasn't aware that feature had become 
part of Ubuntu cause i've not been using linux for about a year now 
(been using Mac OS X) so when i came back to Ubuntu and saw that option 
i wasn't sure what to make of it at first. But, having looked around on 
the net a bit more there seems to lots of positive feedback about it. 
I've gone for the traditional partitioning the drive for now but it's 
good to hear it's working out for others because i will definitely give 
it a go.

Jamie