Ultimate Edition Forum

Hi Guys
ty for developing Ultimate Edition it is going to save me a lot of frustration i think.
My question is simple how do install Ultimate Edition alongside or inside windows, i have Ubuntu 9.10 on my system now and when Ifound Ultimate Edition , i hightailed it straight to the d/l section. I need to keep windows on my machine so want a dual os and really liked the idea of installation inside windows. I burnt the Ultimate Edition dvd mounted it and got the demo but no option to install inside windows, any help or advice is appreciated.
Once again thank you for such a great distro.

well you have 2 options, the Ubuntu installer will let you format part of your hard drive and install it in the new partition. When you start up again you will get a window where you can choose which OS you want to use at the time (we call this the 'grub' loader) There is also a program called wubi http://wubi-installer.org/ that will let you install it from within windows.

Welcome to the forum

If you're looking to install inside windows then yes the wubi installer is what you want. I have never done it that way but many people do.

I wasn't aware there's no wubi in 2.6. Are you sure?
While running windows slide the livedvd in and you should get an option to install it inside windows using wubi. It would then install it like you would install a program.

nope no installer for inside windows have attached a screenshot of installer widow

theology wrote:nope no installer for inside windows have attached a screenshot of installer widow

I'm surprised. I'll see what I can find out about it. It may have had issues that weren't resolved before release so they left it out. I know there was a call for wubi testers a while back. Meanwhile maybe someone that already knows will post.

sorry to be such a pain, i have gotten as far as preparing the partition step 5 of 8 on install
and now i dont know what to do.
this is what the screen is displaying

device type mount point format? size used
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 ntfs 5000096mb unknown

so when i select
/dev/sda
i get the new partition button available
when i select
/dev/sda1
i have the change delete revert options

I really dont know what to select

when i select ntfs on the edit pop up from the use as menu
and select the format button i then get the options in the mount point of
/dos
/windows

help lol
if i hit change on /dev/sda1
i get the edit a partition pop up and am utterly lost at this point.
Help please i really dont know what to do from here.
is there a walk thru on the site or can someone pls post the dummys guide to installing this
again thank you

Ok, hold on there a minute. First you're wanting a wubi and now you're going a full install on it's own partition dual boot setup (my preferred method by the way).

Do you want a wubi install in windows?
A full dual boot install to hard drive?

If the latter we need to prepare the disk for the install to prevent problems and make it all work smoothly.

Looks like they totally changed wubi. I'm going to have to see what if any option there is for using it to install Ultimate Edition. It looks like it's now tied directly to regular ubuntu and it downloads it and installs it.

What version of windows do you have installed?
If it's windows 7 here's a guide for you:
Dual-Boot Windows 7 and Ultimate in Perfect Harmony

[quote="theology"]sorry to be such a pain, i have gotten as far as preparing the partition step 5 of 8 on install
and now i dont know what to do.

Hello, here is a graphical instruction which should help you, this is for UBUNTU 10.04 but the install of Ultimate Edition 2.6 will be the same. Please scroll down to the install on a hard drive section. You want to follow the # 1 option. install along side windows.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installi ... 1550.shtml

wubi kicked me straight back to the Ultimate Edition disc so i ran it in demo then hit the install icon on the desktop and that led me to where i got stuck.
the link to the visual install is for deleting or non existent os on the hd, i am still stuck and dont know what to do sorry to be so thick i need this spelled out for me
thanks again