Dapper Drake ubuntu

[Sivan Greenberg]

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 21:04 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> The default option is to resize your windows partition and then use the free
> space for Ubuntu, just as you've done manually with the instructions above.
> There are certain situations (at least with PC partition tables) where it
> can't offer this option due to limitations in the partition table format,
> but if you have enough free space for it to work, it works well.
> 

This happens to work very well, minus some IMHO minor glitches:
1) On my T43p (SATA-PATA bridge, PATA hard drive, preinstalled with
windows from Lenovo) it b0rked the "Access IBM" functionality from the
BIOS menu (probably due to the problems mentioned below).
2) While the installer was successful in probing for the two Lenovo
shipped partitions, e.g. the XP Home one and the Recovery and Repair
partition , something had went wrong either in re-size or grub
configuration - (the former seems more probable) Choosing to boot the
Win2000/XP partition (as d-i identified it) to boot the recovery and
repair system (what seems a heavily patched WinNT 5 by IBM, optimized
for the purpose of restoring from product recovery CDs and doing other
maintenance ) will result in it eventually displaying a BSOD , forcing
you to reboot and choose another target. The installer did manage to
resize the XP home partition no issues at all.

-Sivan