9.04 installer and dual booting

[Karl F. Larsen]

Jamie Griffin wrote:
> 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
>
>   
    I am using triple booting between 8.10, 9.04 and Vista. Zero 
problems with Grub but 9.04 has been a problem getting wireless Internet.

Karl


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