Wubi upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04

[tim11pop]

Hello everyone,

I have a Wubi installation of Ubuntu 9.10 and am trying to upgrade to 10.04. The download of everything went fine, but it has stuck on the "installing the upgrades" part, about halfway through it keeps saying "Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic". It keep repeating this constantly. The status bar says "Preparing memtest86+" with about 14 minutes remaining.


Any help would be great

[tommcd]

I have a Wubi installation of Ubuntu 9.10 and am trying to upgrade to 10.04. ...
Any help would be great
You need to understand that Wubi was and is only intended for people to try out Ubuntu. It was never intended to be a way for people to upgrade to the next version of Ubuntu. See this interview with Wubi's developer
Agostino Russo:
http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2009/03/12/interview-with-agostino-russo-wubi-ubuntu/

Agostino: Wubi actually wasn’t designed to do long-term installations. The main aim was really to let people try out Ubuntu with confidence. Normally, users that start with Wubi tend to upgrade to a full installation to a dedicated partition at the next release cycle.
So ... you really should do a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 to a dedicated partition. Dare to become a real linux user!!!
Here is a site to get you started on your way to becoming a real Ubuntu linux user:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/
And you can steal the free Ubuntu 10.04 manual here:
http://ubuntu-manual.org/
Here is a great site to help you dual boot with Windows on the same computer:
http://members.iinet.net/~herman546/
And welcome to the Ubuntu forums!! Welcome to the cool side of computing!!!

[dino99]

you have 2 choices:

- install virtualbox on windoz, then ubuntu into virtualbox
- make a real isntall: follow this mini howto
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9216264&postcount=14