I gave Ubuntu 8.10 to my brother, extracted from the .iso and we tried to run the wubi.exe to run the Ubuntu install and it tries to download Ubuntu (690mb or so) when he has all of the files for Ubuntuin the folder.
EDIT: I'm running the file using Windows XP, because I have no blank disks to burn the .iso on. I installed Ubuntu without using a disk this way and it works fine.
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