[LUGSB] Ubuntu install in Windows problem?

[Hanne Paine]

Okay -- so if I can get a LiveUSB, where do I go from there? How do I boot
from it when this is going on?

On 17 December 2011 22:25, Hanne Paine <paine.hanne at gmail.com> 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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