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Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

Sushrut — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:55:25 -0000

Even i got the same problem.. Somebody please help.

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

sushmitha — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:14:33 -0000

I tried installing ubuntu 8.10 desktop edition following these steps. but after rebooting to ubuntu i m just displayed the brown ubuntu screen with no icons and no takbar. pls help!!

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

artems2006 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:36:25 -0000

i've installed ubuntu on winxp sp3
it worked fine 2 months until now i get an error loading UBUNTU:
windows is unable to find system file ntoskrnl.exe (text is not exact like this - it is translation from russian)
windows works without any errors.

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

Lé-Vaughn Roper — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:29:13 -0000

i have two NTFS partitions[C: and E:]. When i install the ubuntu 8.10 into windows on the E: partition then restart. on restart and booting in Ubuntu iand while ubuntu is checking installation i get a "root cant be define" and that i should check partition editor....

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

boreeaq — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:32:04 -0000

Ty this really help and was very simple

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

adroit — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:26:26 -0000

i successfully installed ubuntu 8.10 in windows 7. But when i did a reboot, the OS selection screen did not appear. My system booted automatically to windows 7.please help?

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

JuanONE — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:15:32 -0000

Guys this is great!!

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

Edcel John — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:23:09 -0000

Everytime I boot with the newly installed Ubuntu, a window with a loading bar appears. I waited but then I saw that there was no improvement when it came to 82% "Scanning the mirror". I tried to wait for about more or less an hour. Okay, I tired this 5 times. Still, it happens. Even when I use the Live CD and then install or even emulate it. Help please.

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

Rob — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:36:14 -0000

I'm trying to do this in Windows 7 but I don't get the boot menu when I restart, and it defaults to Windows. How can I get it to work??

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

Mike — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:37:40 -0000

I am trying to install Ubuntu 8.10 in this method. The whole process goes fine, escept on reboot I do not get the windows boot manager menu. I went into advanced system sentings and it does show a ubuntu boot option, but during reboot, even if I hit escape, the ubuntu option does not show up. Any ideas? I am installing ubuntu amd64 inside windows vista ultimate x64 svc pk 1.

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

linuxgeek — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:31:45 -0000

try typing esc all the time while booting... this is a common problem

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

Pravardhan — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:07:25 -0000

I am facing a problem while installing Ubuntu 8.10 inside Windows.

I am getting the Ubuntu option with the Windows option, and it will boot to the graphical mode and then checks for installation and gives a error as :
"No root file system is defined.
Please correct this from the partitioning menu"

I have got just 855MB free space and after installing, the free space is reduced to 145MB and i can see the .iso files * many files of ubuntu in "ubuntu" folder.....

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

RAMAKANTH — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:17:12 -0000

6TH STEP IS NOT BEING DONE IN MY SYSTEM

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

Nephilim — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:36:07 -0000

I have recently stumbled across this site and am impressed with what I see so far. At the same time, I would like that a touch more information were provided with such tasks. Such as what the benefits and disadvantages are to installing a 'buntu distro within Windows. How does it do this? Via a virtual drive, or a simple folder structure? Will I lose any functionality? Will this affect read/write access to NTFS/FAT12/32 partitions?

I am not asking for a full featured guide, but a few more words here and there would go a long way to ensuring all bases are covered.

Thanks.

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

SuperRon — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:05:05 -0000

Hi, i have tried this today and after installing and being asked to reboot there is no option of selecting ubuntu it just loads straight into windows.

Any chance anyone can help me with this?

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

Norb — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:24:16 -0000

This is a great step foward from (and for) The Ubuntu Community!!!!

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

MPP777 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:46:49 -0000

And if I want to install Ubuntu from Windows and with a DVD iso of ubuntu modified to have in the DVD multiboot for UBUNTU and XP etc...

When I proceed to install from XP it make an error after having proceed the checsum.

I think that the CD or iso can not be modified to install ubuntu from Windows.

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

ravi — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:22:54 -0000

all is fine with ubuntu when done this way but my windows vista began giving me BSOD very frequently now...
i have to uninstall ubuntu now, not happy

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

computrnrd111 — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:10:05 -0000

how much hard drive space does it need and can i install it to a flash drive?
oh? and will it work on xp sp3

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

gou — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:14:35 -0000

you are not clear, you can't access them from windows or ubuntu?

if you can't access them from ubuntu try creating a few GB partition for it and installing it there.

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

xtian — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:50:50 -0000

thanks it worked!

but i have another concern, after I installed ubuntu into my Drive D: it seems that i can’t accessed previous files in my Drive D: like mp3’s and avi’s.
I can only accessed my previous files from Drive C:

how do I accessed/solved this?

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

Rob Rogers — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:16:48 -0000

The files will remain intact. Ubuntu is installed into its own directory.

Re: Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

xtian — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:39:32 -0000

Installing Ubuntu at "Drive D:"
what if "Drive D:" still have some file like movies, mp3, others files...
will those files be lost when installation?