On 25 August 2015 at 09:27, Alan Pope <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 21 August 2015 at 14:01, Dimitri John Ledkov <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 21 August 2015 at 13:53, Alan Pope <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 21 August 2015 at 13:45, Michael Hall <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Modern Windows releases broke Wubi, so we stopped shipping and >>>> supporting it a while back. As far as I know it's a dead-end now. >>>> >>> >>> We didn't stop shipping it. I just downloaded the 15.04 desktop iso. >>> >> >> but it's only used in greeter mode on windows which shows a GUI window >> and offers one to reboot. >> > > That doesn't work. > > I grabbed the latest supported release (amd64 desktop 15.04 iso) and > put it on a USB stick, shoved that in a Windows 10 machine. The efi > partition gets mounted by Windows, but it sees the rest of the stick > (containing wubi.exe crucially) as un-partitioned space. >
Interesting, we are supposed to have autorun.ini, which launches wubi thing of CD/DVD when inserted... Looks like windows is mounting the uefi partition, instead of the Joliet which it claims non-recognised. > So from my one-off test on a fairly standard Windows 10 install, wubi > can't work. > >> launching wubi.exe off the cd doesn't start "wubi installer". >> > > I assume you mean "usb stick" (or perhaps DVD) where you say "cd" as > the 15.04 image doesn't fit on a CD. I didn't test the DVD use case, > but certainly can once I dig a blank DVD out. > I mean DVD. Something for a DVD drive.... looking around my house I don't have a dvd drive on any of my machines any more. >> if one moves the wubi.exe off the disk however, it still shows the >> "installer" mode if one wants to brick their windows.... >> > > I don't believe we should be in the business of shipping known > brick-making software. > > We should fix these issues or drop them. We have no resources to > maintain this (as I understand it). I therefore recommend we remove > wubi from the CD image completely. If someone in the community wants > to take over the project, and serve up the (fixed) wubi.exe from > somewhere for those users who need it, I think that's a better way > forward than us having a broken version on our ISO. > That would be an action for foundations. -- Regards, Dimitri. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
