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RE: wubi installation

Asked by Don Trombley

I downloaded a fresh WUBI and ran it. I got as far as approx. 1/4 of the Ununtu with the informational clock registering 3 hrs 44 min to go, and remained there. The download was started yesterday. I don't know if something interrupted the transmission, or if the Internet is so dirty, that it interfered with the download. Any suggestion?

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Jason Odoom (jasonodoom) said : 		#1

Something could have delayed the connection-traffic. Or.. was any program or anything sharing the connection?

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Don Trombley (donmila) said : 		#2

I tried downloading Ubuntu 10.04, via WUBI and, thought it was complete. The installation did not start, went into Windows Terminal mode, typed in Dir, located Ubuntu Dir, cd Ubuntu, C:\Ubuntu, Went into each of the Ubuntu Directories, and found that each directory was empty. Did the WUBI again, deleted the previous installation, retried WUBI Install, again, after a day and a half of installing, noted the Directories were a little more complete...but the program still did not start. So, I tried again, still the same.
The Main Drive, C: still has more than enough space on it for Wubi installed Ubuntu O/S (Being approx. 130 gb of free disk space.)
As for the Ubuntu on a stick, my memory Key is only 2 gb., which I found later, is not big enough for me to use for the O/S, plus storage of files.....

Don.

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#3

Download the Ubuntu image yourself, using bittorrent preferably. Then place this .iso file and wubi.exe in the same folder and run it from there.

Alternatively, burn the .iso to a CD and then you can install it from there, as well as have a 'rescue' disk.

Make sure you're downloading the correct image, e.g. if you want netbook-edition, don't download the desktop CD. Note also that netbook-edition and xubuntu don't have a 10.04.1 release, and the wubi.exe you are likely using will not work with them. So you cannot install these using just wubi.exe (the one on http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/windows-installer) - but it will work if you run it from a CD.

PS. There is a major issue with wubi and grub2 at the moment. Do not update packages grub-pc or grub-common.

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Don Trombley (donmila) said : 		#4

After many trials in getting WUBI to do its work, finally succeded in getting established, and, Ubuntu is now working as it should.
the Verion is 10.04 plus any upgrades.
Now to start learning to use the system.... any recommendations?

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Jason Odoom (jasonodoom) said : 		#5

You can always email me if you have any question, if you want? Also, check
out the Ubuntu beginners team.

With all due respect,

Jason Odoom
http://www.google.com/profiles/jasonodoom
https://launchpad.net/~jasonodoom <https://launchpad.net/%7Ejasonodoom>

Sent from Ubuntu <http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop>.

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Don Trombley <
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> Question #136491 on Wubi changed:
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> Don Trombley confirmed that the question is solved:
> After many trials in getting WUBI to do its work, finally succeded in
> getting established, and, Ubuntu is now working as it should.
> the Verion is 10.04 plus any upgrades.
> Now to start learning to use the system.... any recommendations?
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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#6

Install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package to give mp3 support etc. and enable DVD playback. (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs)

I prefer the chrome browse (I synch all the bookmarks etc. so they're the same whether in Windows or Ubuntu). Firefox is fine too, but if you want chrome, just google Chrome and it will offer you a download for Linux.

Since you're using Wubi I'd make sure you have backups of anything you store on the virtual disk or store important stuff e.g. multimedia under /host (the windows ntfs host partition) so it's also accessible from windows.

You can use UbuntuOne to synch things that you change - scripts, configuration files, notes that you make whenever you figure something out that wasn't obvious - so if you ever have to reinstall you can retrieve them again. Or even access them from Windows. The more you put in the cloud, the less issues you have switching between OSes or reinstalling if necessary.

What else, I guess it all depends on what you want to do on Ubuntu. I'd suggest you get an account at Ubuntuforums.org - and browse there (you can learn a lot seeing how problems are solved), or ask there for suggestions.

Enjoy!

PS don't forget about not updating grub-pc and grub-common;

PPS if your system hangs and your keyboard is unresponsive, try and avoid hard shutdowns by holding down the ALT-SysRQ keys while pressing R-S-U-B. Usually this will reboot your system safely.