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Thread: Stacked at 33%

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    Stacked at 33%

    I am trying to install Ubuntu with the Wubi installer.
    The windows part goes with no errors. The Ubuntu installation is being copied from the site and I am being asked if I want to reboot now or later. I reboot, I chose Ubuntu from the screen and then I wait. I get to the point were it says that the applications are being copied and after that it says that the virtual drive is being formatted and that this may take some time. The process bar goes almost immediately to 33% and then nothing. It stays at 33% without moving. I waited for about 15 minutes and it was still 33%.

    Anyone know what could be the problem?

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    Re: Formating Virtual Drive

    I had the same problem when I was installing wubi. I think that our problem is hard disk driver is not supported. My hard disk is TOSHIBA MK8007GAH.

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    Re: Formating Virtual Drive

    I have a Maxtor hard drive.
    So did you install Wubi eventualy?

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    Re: Formating Virtual Drive

    I'm not sure if it is the hard disk driver. I'm on a SATA Western Digital, and am getting the same issue.

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    Angry Re: Formating Virtual Drive

    Same here.
    I am trying to use a using a Sony Vaio VGN-S4M/S

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    Re: Formating Virtual Drive

    Wait a little bit, you can also press alt+f4 for more feedback. Also select smaller disk images of 4-5GB or so.

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    Re: Formating Virtual Drive

    You were right, I changed size to 4 gb and It could be installed perfectly, thanks a lot.

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    Re: Formating Virtual Drive

    Can you try to start with a 3GB virtual drive and go up to see if there is a size that will jam the formatter? I will also create a special bulild later on with a change that might be relevant.

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    Re: Formating Virtual Drive

    What filesystems are you installing on? NTFS or FAT? How big are the virtual drives?

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    Re: Formating Virtual Drive

    I'm installing using Vista's NTFS, within its partition.

    After changing the home drive to something smaller, and opening the verbose mode, I got the following:
    May 13: bio too big device loop6 (1>0)
    ext2-fs: unable to read super block
    and then it would repeat but then with ext3-fs, and again, for reiserfs but then this:
    resiserfs:loop6:wargning:sh-2006 reads super-block: bread failed (dev[?]loop6, block 2, size 4096)

    and one like

    init starting pid 8467 console /dev/tty1/ '/bin/sh'
    udevd:delete_path rmdir (/dev/.udev/failed) failed
    read-only file system

    Now I'm not totally certain what all of this means, but this is happening within the formattting process.

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