[LUGSB] Ubuntu install in Windows problem?

[Ahmed Hassan]

You need to enable boot from cd in your BIOS.
After that, put Ubuntu cd in your cdrom and boot from it.

grub will not help you to do anything from its command line.

On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 22:25 -0500, Hanne Paine wrote:
> 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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