Wubi

Can not download in windows

Asked by George Cuda

First I download wubi so I can download in windows but it tells me "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \device\hardisk1\dr1" So I hit cancel and the ubuntu installer comes up and I hit install, it starts and tell me the same thing again "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \device\hardisk1\dr1" so I hit cancel again it goes all the way through but then just at the end it say "An error occurred: Could not retrieve the required installation files. For more information, please see the log file:

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Jason Odoom (jasonodoom) said : 		#1

You're suppose to burn it onto a CD for it to work. Then insert the disk into the drive.

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Jason Odoom (jasonodoom) said : 		#2

This will show you how to burn. http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#3

@Jason. Please, when you encounter a question about Wubi, link question to "project Wubi", as I have just done. So bcbc will be able to answer. He is very expert about Wubi. If you are also interested on some domain, you could subscribe packets. In this case, tell me and I will ask other triagers to pay attention to link question to your chosen packets.

@George: I will not answer answer question about Wubi, as I'm not able to do. But I'm curious to know why you choose Wubi instead of installation alongside Windows, in a virtual machine or a Live CD.

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#4

The first problem is due to the presence of a MMC device or something else plugged into the computer where there is a drive letter assigned, but size of zero. Removing the device usually prevents the error.

The second error... I'll need to see the log file info.

But note that there has been a problem with the wubi.exe available from http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/windows-installer - this was fixed last night, but there may be some download mirrors still affected. So if the release shows 10.04.1 (top middle) when you run it, it will not work. You can get 10.10 from releases.ubuntu.com/maverick or 10.04.2 from releases.ubuntu.com/lucid

It's also possible to download the desktop CD iso yourself for the release you want and burn it to CD, create a bootable USB or just place it in the same directory as wubi.exe. This is a good idea because you can reuse it if you need (and having a bootable CD/USB is good too)

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