install ubuntu in a file on windows partition (similar to Wubi installer)

2020-05-09 Thread razvan becheriu
Hi, I don't want to create a lot of spam, but I have also added this discussion to: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/690575 and https://askubuntu.com/questions/1237424/install-ubuntu-in-a-file-on-windows-partition-similar-to-wubi-installer I am not sure where is the proper place

RE: Wubi

2015-08-27 Thread hakuna matata
IMHO it doesn't make sense to remain Wubi on ISOs without maintaining. So I agree with bcbc, It is broken and needs to be fixed or removed. On 25 August 2015 at 08:32 Alan Pope alan.pope at canonical.com wrote: If someone wants to step up and take over maintenance, testing and release, we'd

Re: Wubi

2015-08-25 Thread Alan Pope
On 25 August 2015 at 07:33, bcbc bcbc openb...@gmail.com wrote: On that subject (on being in charge of Wubi), you do realise that there are in fact patches supplied to fix Wubi? This was what triggered my initial mail to this list in the first place. The combination of broken software

Re: Wubi

2015-08-25 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, On 21 August 2015 at 14:01, Dimitri John Ledkov x...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 21 August 2015 at 13:53, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: On 21 August 2015 at 13:45, Michael Hall mhall...@ubuntu.com wrote: Modern Windows releases broke Wubi, so we stopped shipping and supporting

RE: Wubi

2015-08-25 Thread bcbc bcbc
There is also some logic in Ubiquity that will copy Wubi.exe to the Windows startup folder, when it finds 4 primary partitions already in use on an MBR formatted disk. It asks Install Ubuntu inside Windows? as the first option. e.g. http://askubuntu.com/q/536075/14916 When this happens, Wubi

Re: Wubi

2015-08-25 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Windows releases broke Wubi, so we stopped shipping and supporting it a while back. As far as I know it's a dead-end now. We didn't stop shipping it. I just downloaded the 15.04 desktop iso. but it's only used in greeter mode on windows which shows a GUI window and offers one to reboot

Re: Wubi

2015-08-25 Thread Marco Trevisan
Il 21/08/2015 15:01, Dimitri John Ledkov ha scritto: On 21 August 2015 at 13:53, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: On 21 August 2015 at 13:45, Michael Hall mhall...@ubuntu.com wrote: Modern Windows releases broke Wubi, so we stopped shipping and supporting it a while back. As far as I

Re: Wubi

2015-08-21 Thread Alan Pope
On 21 August 2015 at 13:45, Michael Hall mhall...@ubuntu.com wrote: Modern Windows releases broke Wubi, so we stopped shipping and supporting it a while back. As far as I know it's a dead-end now. We didn't stop shipping it. I just downloaded the 15.04 desktop iso. alan@deep-thought

Re: Wubi

2015-08-21 Thread Andrea Corbellini
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:13 AM Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: Hey, Is wubi still a supported way of installing? If so, who maintains it? I was almost sure that Wubi was no longer supported since Raring. Precisely, since the end of this thread on ubuntu-devel: https

Re: Wubi

2015-08-21 Thread Michael Hall
Modern Windows releases broke Wubi, so we stopped shipping and supporting it a while back. As far as I know it's a dead-end now. Michael Hall mhall...@ubuntu.com On 08/21/2015 05:13 AM, Alan Pope wrote: Hey, Is wubi still a supported way of installing? If so, who maintains it? Seems we

Re: Wubi

2015-08-21 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 21 August 2015 at 13:53, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: On 21 August 2015 at 13:45, Michael Hall mhall...@ubuntu.com wrote: Modern Windows releases broke Wubi, so we stopped shipping and supporting it a while back. As far as I know it's a dead-end now. We didn't stop shipping

Wubi

2015-08-21 Thread Alan Pope
Hey, Is wubi still a supported way of installing? If so, who maintains it? Seems we have some bugs [1] including one fairly serious one [2] which causes the wrong version of Ubuntu to get installed. I was told wubi (installer) was to be replaced by a simpler wubi which is just a menu

error in upgrade to 12.04 (64 bit) from 11.10 (64 bit) using wubi as installer

2013-01-18 Thread Abhishek Dixit
I happen to get some failure in doing a 11.04 to 12.04 move so I stuck back to Wubi here is my message on user list https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2013-January/266972.html how ever it appears the ability to install using wubi has been disabled as mentioned on this message https

Re: wubi missing module multiboot to boot with Xen

2011-03-12 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/12/2011 02:05 AM, Abhishek Dixit wrote: As Phillip suggested set prefix=(loop0)/boot/grub I tried putting above line at many different places which included before I gave command insmod multiboot and I am getting the same file not found

Re: wubi missing module multiboot to boot with Xen

2011-03-12 Thread Abhishek Dixit
and this folder is completely empty. I think Wubi installation does not uses grub. I have not done any changes to any default installation. It was just a normal installation. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: wubi missing module multiboot to boot with Xen

2011-03-11 Thread Abhishek Dixit
Continuing in same thread where we are trying to debug a grub problem on a machine where Ubuntu was installed using Wubi in C driver of Windows 7 C:\ubuntu following are the grub entries we need to boot menuentry Xen Linux 2.6.32.27 { insmod ntfs set root='(hd0,2)' loopback loop0

Re: wubi missing module multiboot to boot with Xen

2011-03-10 Thread Phillip Susi
On 3/10/2011 12:41 AM, Abhishek Dixit wrote: I am not very clear with what you said in following entry where should I add the line as you suggested. Any time before the insmod that fails. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: wubi missing module multiboot to boot with Xen

2011-03-09 Thread Phillip Susi
On 3/9/2011 12:29 AM, Abhishek Dixit wrote: ntfs (hd0,2). Therefore any attempt to read any files from (hd0,2) simply wont work, cause there's no file there.It's a somewhat Then you want to change the prefix to point to where the module can be found: set prefix=(loop0)/boot/grub --

Re: wubi missing module multiboot to boot with Xen

2011-03-09 Thread Abhishek Dixit
=(loop0) multiboot /boot/xen.gz module/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.27 dummy=dummy root=/dev/sda2 loop=/ubuntu/disks/root.disk ro console=tty0 module/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32.27 } Wubi with Xen problem set multiboot module missing,module command not found error was being

wubi missing module multiboot to boot with Xen

2011-03-08 Thread Abhishek Dixit
, but rather wubi - grub - multiboot issue.I want to know how can I install the missing modules of grub in Wubi? I need to use insmod multiboot and commands kernel,module available in grub in this Ubuntu setup which was done using Wubi. How can I get module multiboot in this Wubi based install.Since