[LUGSB] Ubuntu install in Windows problem?

[Hanne Paine]

I'm sorry if I'm approaching this too naively, but I just got "command not
found" when I tried that. Could you tell me more about the suggestion you
made? I found the boot cd you mentioned, but I'm not sure what to do with
it.



On 17 December 2011 22:13, Ahmed Hassan <ahmed at linuxism.com> wrote:

> 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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