Windows 7 and Ubuntu 8.10

Asked by Mike "E"

I have a Dell Latitude 2100 netbook that came with Ubuntu 8.10 installed and I would like to install Windows 7 for my son.
Software is located on my Maxtor Onetouch mini. When I try to install Windows 7 from slecting setup.exe I get this error.
Please help this netbook is for his school. Thank You!

[/media/OneTouch4 Mini/Windows 7/setup.exe]
  End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
note: /media/OneTouch4 Mini/Windows 7/setup.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /media/OneTouch4 Mini/Windows 7/setup.exe or
          /media/OneTouch4 Mini/Windows 7/setup.exe.zip, and cannot find /media/OneTouch4 Mini/Windows 7/setup.exe.ZIP, period.

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Nicola Ferralis (feranick) said :
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The forum here only concerns the version of Ubuntu that came with your netbook. Questions regarding any other OS should be directed to the vendor (Microsoft in your case).

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> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:51:07 +0000
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> New question #94703 on The Dell Mini Project:
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> I have a Dell Latitude 2100 netbook that came with Ubuntu 8.10 installed and I would like to install Windows 7 for my son.
> Software is located on my Maxtor Onetouch mini. When I try to install Windows 7 from slecting setup.exe I get this error.
> Please help this netbook is for his school. Thank You!
>
> [/media/OneTouch4 Mini/Windows 7/setup.exe]
> End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
> a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
> latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
> the last disk(s) of this archive.
> note: /media/OneTouch4 Mini/Windows 7/setup.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive
> zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /media/OneTouch4 Mini/Windows 7/setup.exe or
> /media/OneTouch4 Mini/Windows 7/setup.exe.zip, and cannot find /media/OneTouch4 Mini/Windows 7/setup.exe.ZIP, period.
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