Did It! Now To Do It Again...

2009-06-20 Thread Rob Farquhar
Hi all! Just a quick message to let you know that I successfully reformatted my root partition and installed 9.04. So far it seems to have recognised my home folders without any trouble. Thanks everyone for your help and suggestions! As for my friend Dave's PC, it looks as though his XP

Re: Did It! Now To Do It Again...

2009-06-20 Thread Cary Bielenberg
Rob Farquhar wrote: Hi all! Just a quick message to let you know that I successfully reformatted my root partition and installed 9.04. So far it seems to have recognised my home folders without any trouble. Thanks everyone for your help and suggestions! As for my friend Dave's PC, it

Re: Did It! Now To Do It Again...

2009-06-20 Thread Morgan Storey
It needs to be installed before because Windows simply deletes everything in the master boot record, including ubuntu's loader (lilo or grub). Ubuntu is a bit more forgiving and leaves the NTLDR alone and drops grub/lilo in front of it in the sequence. Onto diablo, last I checked wine played 1

Re: Did It! Now To Do It Again...

2009-06-20 Thread Rob Farquhar
ubuntu-au-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: From: Cary Bielenberg c...@bielenberg.id.au Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:57:05 +1000 Rob, It is advisable to have windows installed 1st as Ubuntu will write a boot manager in the master boot record for all operating systems. Windows will blow it

Re: Did It! Now To Do It Again...

2009-06-20 Thread Tim Neill
You can install a non-legit copy and register it later with the legit cd-keyOr as Morgan said, run D1 and D2 using Wine 2009/6/20 Rob Farquhar imagi...@bigpond.net.au ubuntu-au-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: From: Cary Bielenberg c...@bielenberg.id.au Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:57:05