[ubuntu-uk] Installing Ubuntu on a machine with Windows 9

[Rowan Berkeley]

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.
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