Ubuntu 9.04 installation hangs at "Creating the virtual disks"

[vikashtulsiyan]

Hi ,
I have downloaded ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso and mounted it using Daemon Tools on my Windows Xp laptop. While trying to install as a Windows application, Ubuntu installation hangs at creating the virtual disks. This then creates wubi-9.04-rev128.log file in my temp directory whose size increases exponentially( i had to delete after it reached 1.3 Gb).

My laptop is compaq C700 2 GB ram. Please help me install ubuntu

[vikashtulsiyan]

From the log files. This is the error message that keeps repeating!!


05-10 14:16 ERROR Virtualdisk: WriteFile() failed!
None

[asanhost]

Hello,
I have the same problem in installing ubuntu 9.04

Would you please help me?

Yours Sincerely,

[vikashtulsiyan]

This error is preventing me from using ubuntu. any help will be greatly appreciated

[chromas]

Hi everyone,
i had this problem too. You know what was the problem caused by?
The problem occured because I tried to instal ubuntu [using wubi] on FAT32 partition!! When I cheanged the partition to NTFS everytihing went great and i have an ubuntu 9.04 now :) good luck and sorry for my bad [but not worst?] english.

[vikashtulsiyan]

So does that mean Ubuntu 9.04 doesnt support FAT32

[vikashtulsiyan]

bump

[raymondh]

So does that mean Ubuntu 9.04 doesnt support FAT32

all I can think of is FAT has a size limitation .... unlike NTSF

[RuralHunter]

Hi everyone,
i had this problem too. You know what was the problem caused by?
The problem occured because I tried to instal ubuntu [using wubi] on FAT32 partition!! When I cheanged the partition to NTFS everytihing went great and i have an ubuntu 9.04 now :) good luck and sorry for my bad [but not worst?] english.
Which disk need to be NTFS? I have the same problem and I launched wubi from driver E. I can see wubi tried to create virtual disk on driver C. At first the C driver is FAT32 and wubi failed when the disk file reaches 4G. So I converted driver C to NTFS and re-ran wubi. But this time wubi looks can never complete creating the virtual disk. The disk file reaches more than 14G and I had to cancel it before it filling up driver C.

[crossx14]

This is the solution, at least for me it worked.
Download the revision 134 of Wubi, insert the LiveCD, close the LiveCD menu, then run wubi-r134.exe under Windows.
http://people.ubuntu.com/~evand/wubi/jaunty/wubi-r134.exe
Thank you Agostino Russo, https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/386968, https://launchpad.net/~ago, author and maintainer of Wubi.

However, you could then have to fight with this problem:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1166266
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1176613
This isn't a Wubi problem, and as far as I know, it hasn't be solved.
Best regards.