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

[Rowan Berkeley]

On 06/01/2013 13:37, Simon Greenwood wrote:
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> On 6 Jan 2013 11:32, "Rowan Berkeley" <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com 
> <mailto:rowan.berkeley at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > On 06/01/2013 12:03, Sean Miller wrote:
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> >> WUBI is fine with Windows 8
> >>
> >> I'm running it here...
> >>
> >> Just install it from Windows.
> >>
> >> Sean
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> > 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?
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> s/
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yup - the machine is a Compaq CQ58, brand new. very nice machine actually.
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