[LUGSB] Ubuntu install in Windows problem?

[Ahmed Hassan]

Installing Ubuntu from windows XP is a terrible idea.
If your friend doesn't have a space or a partition, your friend can
download hiren boot cd and resize his/her disk to install ubuntu.

Also, ubuntu 9.10 is EOL

could you post the output of `fdisk -l` here?


On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 22:07 -0500, Hanne Paine wrote:
> Hello Linux Heroes, 
> 
> 
> Sorry to spam, but I thought I might ask your advice on a bit of an
> emergency problem. One of my friends, an XP user, had a old Ubuntu
> partition that wasn't working at all, so he deleted it and decided to
> reinstall the latest version. He downloaded Wubi and followed its
> instructions, but when he rebooted he got nothing but 
> 
> 
> GRUB loading 
> error: no such partition 
> grub rescue > 
> 
> 
> After amateurishly poking around in forums for a bit (I won't pretend
> to know anything at all about XP or installing Ubuntu ), I found this
> - http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/bootinfoscript/index.php?title=Boot_Problems:Wubi_9.10 - which looks like what we've got going on here. Unfortunately, it seems to require rebooting from the XP install disk, which he doesn't have.
> 
> 
> Advice?  
> 
> 
> Thanks so much. I hope finals are treating you all well. 
> 
> 
> Hanne Paine
> President, Stony Brook Computing Society
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