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11.04 fails on Win2000 with errors. Gave up after three tries. install goes well on Xp machine but gets to the welcome screen, goes thru the motions of copy but freezes. Power down and have problems restarting (no display)on Xp. 2 tries gave up.

Asked by Oliver B. Lafferty

I have a computer running Windows 2000. Runs example ok, but for actual install get an error box that tells me to go to C:\document~1\oliver\locals~1\temp\wubi-11.04-rev211.log Cannot find that log entry. I tried several times but it comes up with the error on all. I power down and tried again. Gave up because I have a better computer running XP. This seems to install much faster and goes through all the motions until the Welcome screen comes up and the progress bar for copying (something?) goes all the way then everything freezes. This is the machine I use for my router and main backup so when the machine locked up and I had to power down, My heart sank. I finally did get it going again by repeated tries at starting, but then had XP go into a 3 step check of several files. (Probably because the frozen Ubuntu was still in memory???) (tried twice with same problem)
No way I'm going to try this on my main machine which is running Win 7 until I can get it running on the XP. Is there a bug in 11.04 that others have discovered?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you burn the ISO (MD5 testing before burning). You can install The OS next to Win2k. You will then make a true dual boot. Support for Windows 2000 ended on July 13th 2010:
http://support.microsoft.com/ph/1131

So I wouldn't waste time trying to use it and recommend simply wiping it off and installing Linux on it as the sole OS

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Oliver B. Lafferty (gnomon) said : 		#2

On 5/12/2011 7:11 PM, actionparsnip wrote:
> Your question #157268 on linux in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+question/157268
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> If you burn the ISO (MD5 testing before burning). You can install The OS next to Win2k. You will then make a true dual boot. Support for Windows 2000 ended on July 13th 2010:
> http://support.microsoft.com/ph/1131
>
> So I wouldn't waste time trying to use it and recommend simply wiping it
> off and installing Linux on it as the sole OS
>
 Thanks for the reply. No big deal on the win2k (I have cd burn apps but
downloaded the one recommended. {Haven't worried about checksum testing
since I retired sixteen years ago.} I can always try making it the sole
OS on the 2k but I really wanted it on my Win 7 machine, but am
concerned about that freeze on the Xp.) I have drive images of the W7k,
but an interruption of any kind on that machine I would like to avoid so
I'd settle for getting it on the XP, at least for the immediate future.
Thanks again for the very quick reply.

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Best bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#3

The log files can be found by entering %temp% in the address bar of Windows explorer. Navigating to it manually doesn't work well as it is usually a hidden directory. Post the log file on http://pastebin.ubuntu.com and return the link here if the problem isn't obvious.

The XP freeze is not a known bug. Burn an Ubuntu CD, boot from it, and select "Try it" (try without installing). If everything boots fine from CD, then you can run the http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/ (and pastebin the results) - that will check out the hard drive etc.
If the live CD doesn't boot then likely there is a hardware incompatibility... post the machine specs and maybe there'll be a known kernel boot option workaround that is required.

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Oliver B. Lafferty (gnomon) said : 		#4

Started fresh this morning, burned a fresh download of Ubuntu to cd. Then installed on a fujitsu pc-tablet running Xp. Everything worked and install completed. Took that cd to the previous backup machine that failed and tried another install. Failed again (copy files got a bit further along before freezing.) Will use the fujitsu to get more familiar with linux so I ask that this question or problem be considered closed although it has not been resolved.
Thanks for replies.