I’d love to go into detail about how I hacked together this awesome way to install wubi from the loopback mount onto it’s own partition. Truth be told, save for a quick boot loader edit, I did almost nothing.
Take a look at this site: http://lubi.sourceforge.net/lvpm.html for a complete, visual step-by-step on how to install your wubi instance directly to your hard drive.
The only issue I ran into was with booting into Parted Magic. The DEB I was instructed to install pointed at the wrong disk for root() in the GRUB line. It was as easy as editing /boot/grub/menu.lst to point it at the right place.
In /boot/grub/menu.lst search for ubninit. Change the root line above where you landed to look like this:
root(hd0,)
Rather than this:
root(hd1,)
Enjoy!
I’ve decided to run Linux via Wubi on my work Laptop for one week to try and work out any bugs/issues that might come about. So far I’ve had great success! I’m also building a case to present to our management requesting that whoever wants, should be allowed to run Linux. We won’t request software support from Internal IT, only hardware. Give us hardware, we do the rest. We would be in charge of our own desktop support. We’re smart guys here that have many years of Linux experience, I’m sure we can handle it :). I have a page setup on our internal wiki documenting my progress and counter-arguments for reasons they might say no. Wish me luck!
Here is my progress thus far in no order:
- Got evolution working with exchange.
- Need to get GAL server name for address book.
- Ssh agent forwarding from desktop.
- Pidgin works fine with our local Jabber server.
- OO.org seems to be handling normal office tasks, but it feels so clunky, will research a way to speed up.
- Allowing laptop to sleep with Wubi == BAD.
- Unclean shutdown from Windows will cause issues rebooting into wubi as windows seems to have a “lock” on the filesystem. Boot into windows, shutdown clean to remedy.
- Got print access via CUPS. Konica-Minolta provides the PPD’s for linux & mac!
So I installed ubuntu on my windows partition tonight. I did this with the help of wubi. It was super simple, with one problem.
Trying to install it from the CD with wubi failed after copying the cd image was 100% complete. I got a message that stated "Could Not Access The CD, please make sure other applications are not using it and try again"
Seemed bad, and I almost gave up.
On a whim, I went ahead and copied the wubi installer to my desktop, where the iso also resides. I then ran the wubi installer from my dekstop and viola! It worked fine. Hopefully this will help anyone else with the same error I was experiencing.
