By clicking through the error message several time the installer started
and now I'm a happy camper as Ubuntu 11.04 is installed and running. I
updated to 11.10 and found that it is not user friendly for me. I
un-installed the 11.10 version and re-installed 11.04 which is clear, clean
and works very nice.
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 12:55 AM, David Boden
365...@bugs.launchpad.netwrote:
Same No disk in drive issue for by Dell Studio XPS desktop. Windows 7
64-bit. Again, it has a built in memory stick / SDCARD reader.
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Title:
wubi installer's pyrun.exe says no disk
Status in Wubi, Windows Ubuntu Installer:
New
Status in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
The issue i'm having is with the initial installation.
I run Windows XP Home Edition on an HP Pavilion a656x with an added
video card and an added stick of memory. It has two optical drives,
drive E (a DVD/CD drive) and drive F (a CD drive).
Here is what happens...
1. I boot into Windows XP
2. I insert the Ubuntu 9.04 CD into drive E
3. I get a pop-up message window (from pyrun.exe) telling me that there
is no disk in drive F
4. My options are Cancel, Try Again, and Continue and the X to close
the little window
5. no matter what i click, the error message just pops back up.
if I put the CD in the Drive F, then everything happens exactly the
same except that in step 3, the message informs me there is no disk in
drive E.
So, whichever of my two drives i insert the CD into, the installer
complains that i don't have a disk in the OTHER drive.
In Ubuntu 8.10 (which I no longer have installed on my system), after
I inserted the CD, I would simply get a pop-up that presented 3
installation options (and I want to choose the 2nd one: install inside
windows)in Ubuntu 9.04, if i keep clicking the various buttons
randomly like 50 times (Cancel, Try Again, Continue, and the little
close X)...I will eventually get the installation options.
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UPDATE:
I am the author of this bug report, which I reported in april 2009. It is
now January 2010, and I have decided to sum up the issue and the work
around so people won't read the first 5 or 6 posts and misunderstand the
issue. I am still getting email notifications; so, apparently this is
still a problem.
APPARENT CAUSE:
This issue appears to be due to the wubi installer being ported to python
from its original language; therefore, if i remember correctly, this
problem will only be seen on wubi 9.04 and later. Wubi (and possibly python
itself) has problems dealing elegantly with empty data storage devices in
certain instances. Wubi scans all drives on your system a certain number of
times during the installation process. Every time it scans through the
drives and encounters one it does not know how to deal with, it produces
this error. If you click through it, wubi moves on to the next drive.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
It feels like an infinite loop or like windows must be rebooted, but, it
is nothing so serious. Wubi scans the through all drives several times
during the installation process and produces this error message any time it
encounters a drive it doesn't understand. If you click the error message,
wubi simply scans the next drive. If you keep clicking through the error
message, wubi will eventually have scanned all the drives and move on.
For example, my computer had a card reader with 4 slots. Each slot was
considered a drive and each slot produced an error. Wubi scanned my
drives 3 times during the installation, so I had to click through the
error message a total of 12 times.
POSSIBLE PROBLEM DEVICES:
- card readers (usually each slot will produce the error)
- empty CD or DVD drives (not all people experience issues with
these...my CD and DVD drive did not produce any errors)
- virtual drives
- drives assigned non-ascii drive letter
MORE ABOUT DEVICES:
- built-in card readers appear to be the most commonly reported problem
device
- on the ubuntu forums, I have read that someone had this issue due to an
attached cell phone
- some printers, keyboards, or monitors can have a built-in card
reader...don't forget to check that
WORKAROUND (TEMPORARY SOLUTION):
1. Eject the problem devices, OR...
2. Click through the error messages -- it is not an infinite loop, you
will get one error message per problem device each time wubi scans the
drives.
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