On 06/01/2013 13:37, Simon Greenwood wrote:
On 6 Jan 2013 11:32, "Rowan Berkeley" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> On 06/01/2013 12:03, Sean Miller wrote:
>>
>> WUBI is fine with Windows 8
>>
>> I'm running it here...
>>
>> Just install it from Windows.
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
> Actually, I've tried that, but not with the disk; I've tried it with
what I called the 'self installer'. This is the procedure Ubuntu offer
as "the easy way" because it skips the CD stage altogether, it just
downloads directly into your files, then you find it and click 'run'.
They call it the "Windows installer" and it's here:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/windows-installer
>
> But I get exactly the same result: it seems to complete the
installation process and tells you to restart, you get a screen asking
whether you want to boot into Windows or Ubuntu, and when you try to
boot into Ubuntu you get a lengthy error message basically saying that
it can't load the new OS (which it bizarrely assumes is another
version of Windows), because some files are missing or corrupted. And
that's that.
Can you give us the make and model of the PC?
s/
yup - the machine is a Compaq CQ58, brand new. very nice machine actually.
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