New Wubi version (test3) is out

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But my HDD has only ONE partition! It used to have 2, but my IT removed the IBM-Service (i.e. recovery) since Day 1.

do you see C:\grldr ? what's in boot.ini?

[MilchFlasche]

That's strange, do you have r/w access to the filesystem?

Well I forgot to offer the information that I was installing Wubi Test3 on my NTFS hard drive (actually it's quite common that people install Wubi on Win XP, and therefore on NTFS isn't it ) Would this affect my r/w privilege in Ubuntu? And how should I fix this? Thank you and sorry for asking so many peripheral problems within this thread

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Wubi should normally access the ntfs partitions r/w and the ubuntu partition within the virtual file also r/w. If for some reason ntfs is accessed r/o then there is no way to access any file r/w in ubuntu. But if that happens it's a bug and we'd like to know about it.

[yapel]

do you see C:\grldr ? what's in boot.ini?

As it is my office notebook, and today is a public holiday here ( GMT+8 ), I will revert with full details tomorrow. Thanks!

[MilchFlasche]

Wubi should normally access the ntfs partitions r/w and the ubuntu partition within the virtual file also r/w. If for some reason ntfs is accessed r/o then there is no way to access any file r/w in ubuntu. But if that happens it's a bug and we'd like to know about it.

Thank you. Do I have a way to reconfirm the access class of my Wubi to my NTFS?

By the way, I have compressed the hard drive with Windows XP built-in option, does this have to do with it?

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The general idea is that if users are very accurate in describing their problems and if we can reproduce them on our machines then we can try to fix them. If users are vague and/or we cannot reproduce the error it's much more difficult for us.

[MilchFlasche]

The general idea is that if users are very accurate in describing their problems and if we can reproduce them on our machines then we can try to fix them. If users are vague and/or we cannot reproduce the error it's much more difficult for us.

Yeah... I'm so sorry. And please pardon me, because after a reboot from XP to Ubuntu, I just found that the packages I downloaded (Chinese support and NVIDIA driver) has taken effects now, and I can also log in to this forum on Ubuntu successfully (because it seems that now the system can write cookie information to the disk).

And as for the "hdd" bad block, I have removed the Ubuntu liveCD in my CD R/W machine, and the messages ceased to appear...

So actually not many problems in fact... except for the language option during installation... Sorry for all the mess and thank you for your patience

Cheers!

[Vadi]

I'm installing Wubi on a toughbook cf-m34, windows 2000, ntfs file system.

For some reason, test3 isn't modifying the C:\boot.ini file to include ubuntu inside it. Is there something I can to get it modified, or could someone help me do it manually?

I'm not on the machine right now, but I'll post the file tomorrow if it's needed.

[omgDarkWillow]

Test3 crashes when I try to open it. "Wubi-7.04.... has encountered a problem and needs to close". Test2 still works, though.

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if you have boot.ini issues, can you please try: http://cutlersoftware.com/ubuntusetup/minefield.html