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Ubuntu Windows Installation Error

Asked by Andrew Joplin

I'm trying to use wubi to install Ubuntu 10.04.1 onto my windows 7 machine. As soon as it gets the download information, an error occurs: Cannot download the metalink and therefore the ISO. I tried downloading the v. 10.10 ISO to my computer, extracting the files and running wubi that came with it, and I get the same error, even though, as I understood it, wubi would look within its own directory for the ISO. Thanks for the help!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Did you MD5 test the wubi installer you downloaded?

a good way to use (crappy) wubi, is to download and MD5 test the ISO for your chosen release, then mount it using magicdisk or daemontools and install from there (Or burn the ISO and insert the CD to install from that).

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#2

Are you still having issues with this?

FYI, wubi does it's own md5 checks. And yes, wubi will use any .iso it finds in the same directory, provided it is the correct release.

It will also help to specify the flavour of ubuntu you are installing e.g. the latest wubi.exe is on 10.04.1 release and will not work with ubuntu netbook edition or xubuntu which are at release 10.04.

Not being able to download the metalink points to a firewall or internet access problem. If you get a popup requesting firewall access for pyrun.exe then allow it (wubi is written in python).

Finally, if you still can't get it to work, look for the log file in folder %temp% and cut and paste. It's called wubi-xx.xx-nnn.log. (Clear it before running wubi one time, because it logs every wubi install/uninstall attempt).

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