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hater1
January 9th, 2010, 10:21 PM
Hi,

i have new HP notebook with preinstalled windows and i'd like to have ubuntu too. But it's rather difficult. Long story:

First I wanted dual boot, Ubuntu on separate partition, but then I discovered that I have four primary partitions for windows.
SYSTEM (I think nessesary for windows boot)
c: (where windows is installed)
RECOVERY (for restoring factory settings)
HP_TOOLS (needed for right function of HP BIOS)

ok, what now? Windows partition tool let me create dynamic partition (not extended) but ubuntu partition tool can see only four partitions.

Then the wubi idea came. If I can't have dual boot wubi can be solution. But it failed too. Behavior is similar to

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1163971.html

that is installer say "extracting kernel" and few seconds later just close. Sadly I can't find log file (searching filesystem for word wubi and searching directory c:/users/hater/appdata/local/temp) to discover what's the problem.

Any suggestions?

hater1
January 10th, 2010, 01:54 PM
I was thinking about something like start wubi in verbose mode form command line or start with log location parameter. Can anybody help?

hater1
January 12th, 2010, 08:48 AM
What about this bug?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/503701

Is there any connection?

hater1
January 28th, 2010, 11:28 AM
Ok, dynamic disks is not causing this trouble:

Deleted all partitons, created new primary partitons (not dynamic) and installed windows
Wubi installation was finished, no problem
Then I uninstalled wubi and made disk dynamic
Again wubi installation was finished, no problem.
So the cause of my problems is something else. And log file is there, I can view it.