It just might be the Windows XP acting up, I thought, and so I decided to try it at the office computer which runs on Windows 7. Same error message.
A bit of research on the web resulted in a solution: place the ISO and wubi in the same folder. And so I created a folder in Desktop which contained the ISO and wubi, and left the thumb drive which contained the system generated by the Universal USB Installer plugged in.
I double-clicked wubi and it started reading off the thumb drive. And voila... installation successful!
I rebooted and when the system came up again I chose Ubuntu for my OS and it continued its installation. After another reboot, Ubuntu was live!
From a novice's point of view, the Unity interface is indeed a bit confusing. For one, I wanted the fonts to be smaller and my screen can display at a higher resolution. I also tried installing Chromium but could not figure out how to do it.
At least it's installed now. Will try it at home too so I can play with it a bit more.
11 comments:
many thanks !! you helped me solve the problem
you're welcome! :-)
thanks, quickly solved my problem also!
Thanks! same problem is solved!
Hello! Had same stupid error! Doing now your way! I hope things work now! Thanks! :)
Hi, I tried your solution. It's not working for me when I am installing Ubuntu 11.04 Netbook. So, I searched the internet for a fix.
The following text completely solved my problem:
When wubi.exe (rev211) is run standalone, it offers a choice of Ubuntu-Netbook which is no longer available in 11.04 since Unity was made default in Ubuntu.
It returns an error:
"Ubuntu Netbook Installer"
Cannot download the metalink and therefore the ISO.
The logfile shows that it attempts to download the metalink for ubuntu-11.04-netbook-i386.iso which does not exist.
04-28 22:13 DEBUG downloader: downloading http://releases.ubuntu.com/11.04/ubuntu-11.04-netbook-i386.metalink > C:\ubuntu\install
04-28 22:13 ERROR CommonBackend: Cannot download metalink file http://releases.ubuntu.com/11.04/ubuntu-11.04-netbook-i386.metalink err=[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Hi Dark One. So how exactly was your dilemma solved? What procedure did you follow? It will be great if you can share it also. Thanks.
THANKS A LOT...
happened the same problem installing mint4win :) thanks, you solved me this problem :)
wow..thank u very much...
thanks
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