[nzlug] Dual booting Vista and Ubuntu

[Robin Sheat]

I just learnt the hard way that you can't install Ubuntu on a Vista machine 
the same way you would on an XP machine. The resizer seems to corrupt the 
Vista partition, and of course you only have a recovery CD (if Vista came 
preinstalled), which expects to be able to blow away everything on the disk 
to 'fix' things. 

Apparently the way to do it is use the windows tools to resize the partition 
first, and then set up the partitions you want. Fortunately, the person I was 
doing this for isn't too concerned about Vista, and just wanted it 
there 'just in case it was useful'.

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Robin <robin at kallisti.net.nz> JabberID: <eythian at jabber.kallisti.net.nz>

Hostes alienigeni me abduxerunt. Qui annus est?

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