Please help testing Wubi 10.04

[ago]

fchaffin, after reboot, wubi is intended to be a fully automatic installation. You should not have to press alt+f2 and enter any command. If you get stacked, let's investigate that, but please do not enter manual commands unless instructed to do so, as this makes the debugging more complex.

[bluefoxox]

bluefox, if, once you boot into Ubuntu you see a desktop with an icon to install ubuntu, then the installation did not work out and we would need the logs /var/log/syslog and the ones in /var/log/install. If you end up in a desktop without the installation icon then things should be ok.

Please do a new installation wiping out the previous one, once you reboot the first time, press esc and select verbose mode.

Ago,

There is a compressed attachment with what you asked for, the install directory was actually called installer if that makes a difference. I also attached a screen shot to be sure we are communicating correctly about what the LiveCD installation desktop looks like.

bluefox

[pbelfi]

Please do a new installation wiping out the previous one, once you reboot the first time, press esc and select verbose mode.

Did what you instructed...when I booted through verbose mode, still had the same problem of the install icon coming up on the desktop!

[Uberbob102000]

I'm having the same issue with Wubi, I end up in a LiveCD like enviroment after it goes through its install process.

[pbelfi]

I'm having the same issue with Wubi, I end up in a LiveCD like enviroment after it goes through its install process.

Exactly!! That's the best description of what's going on with my install through Wubi.

[Wesley]

i am having an odd problem

when boot up first time after installed the wubi. click install icon, all normal BUT when at the partition thingy, it asks to erase my whole SSD 64GB.........no thank you lol

normally it'd install on virtual disk (whatever its called lol) inside windows partition. so i cancalled.

[Stefano Bragaglia]

Hi Ago and all,
I just tried to use all the Ubuntu WUBI installer from r174 to r178 with no luck.

I just downloaded the latest BETA iso, namely "ubuntu-10.04-beta1-desktop-i386.iso", I put it in the same folder as WUBI installer but whenever I run it, it always download "lucid-desktop-i386.iso" (even on my AMD machine!!!) which is actually the latest ALPHA...

I kept on installing Ubuntu with WUBI anyway, and I still get the "No root file system" error I started to experience since I upgrade both my machines to Windows 7...

Some says it depends on "dmraid" component: i disabled it on both my machines with no results (my laptop has only 1 drive, while my desktop actually has a RAID 0)...

I think it depends on the hidden restore partition that Windows 7 now creates by default (/dev/sda1), but I'm not so sure on how it actually breaks WUBI...

Anyway I managed to boot Ubuntu via WUBI as a LiveCD (I was not able to do so with WUBI and 9.10) and I noticed that /dev/sda2 is mounted in /isodevice, /dev/sda1 can be seen and mounted, the install iso is accessible as /cdrom, but there is no trace of both root.disk and swap.disk...

I tried to mount them and start Ubiquity (this is the name of Ubuntu installer, right?) in order to manually complete the process but I didn't manage to...

According to WUBI faqs, I should issue the command "mount -o loop /isodevice/ubuntu/disks/root.disk /folder" but it complains that the -t type is needed... I tried several options with no luck, and since I'm not as good as many of you in Linux tweaking, I gave up...

I double checked all the files produced by WUBI in Windows to see where is the command that fails to mount the disks should be: again, no luck, but I started to think that it should be somewhere in the boot process...

Anyway, can anyone of you tell me how can I force the LiveCD to "see" swap.disk and root.disk so that I can try to complete the installation? I think that this would really help to defeat that nasty bug...

Thanks all in advance,
Stefano

[rxc13]

I am using windows 7 enterprise and I had all the problems described above when I tried to use the wubi installer. Wubi always downloaded the x64 version of Ubuntu and failed to install properly.

I finally decided to try downloading the x86 version and wubi worked this time. Could it be a problem with the x64 version?

[pbelfi]

I am using windows 7 enterprise and I had all the problems described above when I tried to use the wubi installer. Wubi always downloaded the x64 version of Ubuntu and failed to install properly.

I finally decided to try downloading the x86 version and wubi worked this time. Could it be a problem with the x64 version?

Hmmm...Interesting, and you may have a good point...I'm going to download the 32 bit version myself and give it a try...I'll report back later with my experience...thanks for the heads up.

[pbelfi]

Just tried to install the X86 version and it was a "No Go" on that too!! Actually I get a grub error when I reboot to do the install.....Oh well It was worth the try I guess.