Re: ubuntu load problems (forwarded to ubuntu-au)
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 10:33 +1000, phil lock wrote: Hi Scott, I am presuming that you will assist me with some insights into my problems - there does not appear to be a mainland person available for my region but as Tassie is only a stone's throw ( little stone and big arm) from Melbourne. (If you are not the correct person could you do me a favour please and send it to the appropriate person and cc to me.) I am trying to load ubuntu on two different machines without success. Dealing with my 64 bit machine (xp 64 pro) I attempt o load via wubi or normal load and get to the point where I am asked if I wish to reboot now or later. When I do either reboot ubuntu does not appear as part of the load option during start-up. So I don't know what is happening there except that it may be a 64 bit quirk. The other machine I have tried to load to is a 32 bit machine running xp home edition - the load appear to be pretty close to completion before I get and cd/dvd error telling me that there is a problem with the disk. Who knows? It seems to be ok when it was built via Nero. I guess my questions to you are: Do I have to partition drives? If I do can I use any drive or must it be the c drive? presents problems if this is the case as I have a ton of spare space another drives but not so much on my c drive. I have looked at the log of the load (wubi .log) and I see no errors on the 64 machine but I do so errors on the 32 bit machine. So to keep it simple can we just deal with the easiest one for now. Thanks in anticipation. Phil ps I tried start a login session via the ubuntu site but when I rec'd the email return post I was unable to login as my machine said that it was an invalid link. Doh! bit frustrating as I would like to get Linux on one of these boxes and preferably the 64 bit machine. pps I have attached the log in case it gives any insights Regards, Phil - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I'm forwarding this message to the ubuntu-au mailing list as I have no experience with using wubi. Please note: Phil, to send to the mailing list you do need to subscribe or your message will will be held for moderator intervention! For details on the mailing list go to https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au -- Scott Evans sc...@vk7hse.hobby-site.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: ubuntu load problems (forwarded to ubuntu-au)
Hello phil, I have not tried using wunbi on a windows xp 64 bit but it should not make much of a difference. You may have a bad cd or a bad cd drive, i have had some problems loading some cd's with various drives so it may be best to not use one at all, instead just download the files yourself. go to http://wubi-installer.org/ and download wubi.exe Go to your favorite mirror (such as your isp's mirror) and download ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso or ubuntu-10.04-server-amd64.iso and place this in the same directory as wubi.exe and it will use that for the install. wubi uses the normal windows boot loader to launch ubuntu, this is configured by boot.ini, this file is hidden on windows, can you check this file and see if it has a line something like: C:\wubildr.mbr = Ubuntu -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
