Re: [ubuntu-uk] Question on dual-booting 11.04 and Windows 7

2011-07-06 Thread alan c
On 06/07/11 09:34, Sean Miller wrote: > Isn't WUBI an option? > > I have a "dual boot" of this sort (no partitioning at all) and it seems to > work quite well. Not long ago some grub updates screwed wubi installations up. I considered this to be ultra bad news because the people I had been recom

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Question on dual-booting 11.04 and Windows 7

2011-07-06 Thread alan c
On 06/07/11 08:54, Neil Greenwood wrote: > On 05.07.11 18:04, alan c wrote: [...] >> 3) Consider and prepare for a reinstall or full recovery if things go >> badly for you, just in case. >> > > This is *very* *good* *advice*! Especially when you're dealing with > proprietary filesystems, make sur

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Question on dual-booting 11.04 and Windows 7

2011-07-06 Thread Sean Miller
Isn't WUBI an option? I have a "dual boot" of this sort (no partitioning at all) and it seems to work quite well. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Question on dual-booting 11.04 and Windows 7

2011-07-06 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 05.07.11 18:04, alan c wrote: > 2) My understanding is that both vista and windows 7 are likely to > place system files at the end of the partition, which means that a > third party partition editor (such as gparted, as used in Ubuntu etc) > may resize the partitons ok, but you may find that the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Question on dual-booting 11.04 and Windows 7

2011-07-05 Thread alan c
On 05/07/11 17:16, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > Hi. > I'm looking to dual-boot Windows 7 and 11.04. > My current setup is as follows: > Windows 7 and programs on C with 28GB free space, data on D with 9 GB free. > My question is this - I have many times created a dual boot by manually > adjustin

[ubuntu-uk] Question on dual-booting 11.04 and Windows 7

2011-07-05 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Hi. I'm looking to dual-boot Windows 7 and 11.04. My current setup is as follows: Windows 7 and programs on C with 28GB free space, data on D with 9 GB free. My question is this - I have many times created a dual boot by manually adjusting partitions, but can anyone explain precisely what the "In