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.net>wrote: > 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. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365881 > > 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. > > --------------------------------- > > 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. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/365881/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365881 Title: wubi installer's pyrun.exe says "no disk" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/365881/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
