[LUGSB] Ubuntu install in Windows problem?

[Ahmed Hassan]

ok, you have to run ubuntu as a live cd.
grub doesn't have access to those commands.

Could you run it as a live cd mode?


On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 22:19 -0500, Hanne Paine wrote:
> 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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