[ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

[Jim Price]

On 15/09/10 16:22, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
> I couldn't see the option to install inside windows, anything else I could
> try, other than using PXE

I have managed to install on a machine which had similar issues to yours 
by adding an entry to the boot.ini to point to a linux loader (grub4dos 
I think) which then loaded the kernel and initrd which I'd copied to the 
hard disk, and that allowed me to continue the install as normal. That 
worked because after I had managed to boot, the kernel could see the 
PCMCIA CD-ROM drive with the rest of the installer files on it. It 
should also work with a USB stick or other storage device with an Ubuntu 
liveCD image on it. This method could probably be made to work - indeed 
I would expect someone to have documented it somewhere on the web by now.
<googles>
The idea is documented under the section "Windows NT/2000/XP (using 
Grub)" here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromWindows

If that isn't helpful, I could have a go at writing it up myself, but 
I'll need to ask several questions about your windows install if you 
want to go down that route.

Another way would be to see if you could set up the boot.ini to run 
something like Plop as a boot loader, and see if that can see the USB 
stick well enough to boot from it.

None of these methods are really as complicated as they sound once you 
have done them the first time - they are just more difficult to document 
that to do.

-- 
JimP