[LUGSB] Ubuntu install in Windows problem?

[Hanne Paine]

How do I go about that? I'm really not sure where to go from the rescue>
prompt.

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

> 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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