Wubi

Installing problems

Asked by Cole Michaud

So i have downloaded the ubuntu 10.10 file and burned it on to a disc. After i had burned it to a disk i then put it into my disk drive and allowed it to run wubi.exe i then pressed that since i was running windows 7(64 bit) that i would like it to run as a windows loader. After installing it on my c:/ drive and allowing 17 gb of memory with with which i had enough room to do with, it requested that i let it restart. After i had restarted i clicked onto the ubuntu selection on the command prompt which brought me into the GUI to install after this was done (which took around 15-20 minutes as well) the computer GUI then changed to the command prompt and asked me for a login. I was confused but i typed the login in then it asked me for a password even though the words didn't actually appear in the prompt i still typed it on keyboard, and it worked! but the problem starts here after i had logged in as the computer said i was simply stuck at the command prompt with cole(my name) cole@ubuntu.~$ and some other gibberish attached my question is what do i do to fix this i had before hand used the demo and fooled around with the system for awhile but i cannot seem to be able to get back into the ubuntu GUI without the disc demo which does not save any of my changes. PLZ HELP

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#1

What computer brand/model do you have? And what is the graphics card?

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Cole Michaud (michaudcole) said : 		#2

The brand is an Asus Model:K52F and the graphics card is Intel(R) HD graphics (Pentium)

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Best bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#3

I found this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1608674

I would suggest booting in recovery mode, drop to a root shell with networking, and then:
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

If you boot to a shell as a normal user it would be:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Then reboot and hopefully it will be fixed.

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Cole Michaud (michaudcole) said : 		#4

I actually figured it out, thanks for all of the ideas but i used a different thing but you were close. If any has had this problem solution i used it follows. After installing it with the wubi i went into my boot menu and went into recovery mode then into boot in lowest graphics mod(of whatever it is called) and installed the updates from within there(for some reason root & sudo were not working in the command prompt and installation caused my system to shutdown.) bcbc suggestion was good but i had to troubleshoot the troubleshoot method.