How To: Dual Booting Ubuntu 11.10 with Wubi!

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We're back! In this video we will step through setting up a Dual-Boot Ubuntu/Windows 7 setup the easy way. This is accomplished using Wubi. Wubi comes as a feature of the Live Ubuntu Linux CD. If you stick the Live CD into your computer from within Windows, you can launch the install via Wubi.

The nice thing about Wubi is that to use it, you don't have to mess with partitioning, re-sizing partitions, etc. With the last several iterations of Ubuntu, dual-booting has become less intimidating. But Wubi seems to take the rest of that concern out of the equation. Once you install via Wubi, you can then remove the Ubuntu install later just as if it were a Windows application (see our next video for more info on removing our Ubuntu/Wubi install).

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• Ubuntu (operating System)
• Multi Boot
• Wubi (Ubuntu Installer)
• Windows 7
• Desktop
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[anasasisxeno]

So ive tried this and cant seem to get it to completely extract and install. At the very end it says access denied and refers me to a log error? I looked through it and will message you the log if you could figure out whats gong wrong. Thanks

[TechieSmarts]

@anasasisxeno Whenever you get a free second shoot the log error to my inbox and I'll be happy to give it a look over.

[FighterByte]

I'm going to install Ubuntu from the ISO Wubi.exe. I have two hard drives, one is used for nothing and the other is running Win7 and ALSO a partition for my programs and other stuff. So it already has two partitions. The question is: Is it safe to create a third partition and install Ubuntu on it, or will having that many partitions mess the whole thing up?

[TechieSmarts]

@FighterByte You should be fine. To explain: A single hard drive can have up to 4 primary partitions (only one of these will be an active partition). Or you can have 3 primary partitions and 1 extended partition.

So in short, you should be fine. And installing via Wubi will still give you the functionality of removing Ubuntu altogether at a later time should you choose, via Windows anyways. At which point the drive will be put back the way it is prior to installing Ubuntu via Wubi.

[FighterByte]

@TechieSmarts Thanks for the quick answer! I might try it later this week. Having to install everything again from scratch will piss me off, for I just got everything in order again after failing in installing the drivers for my headphones.

[TechieSmarts]

@FighterByte you're welcome! I can honestly say that I have been there before. If you have a spare USB flash drive laying around you could use the Live CD to create an Ubuntu Flash drive with persistence and bypass your hard drives completely.Pendrivelinux used to be a great site for this info. Just a thought.

[TechieSmarts]

@gmandog6 Thank you! Glad to help!

[gmandog6]

finally a good tutoral

[TechieSmarts]

@Dacha204 I'm not sure if you're able to get far enough into the boot process for booting from the Live CD itself, but you may want to run a MemTest scan on your RAM and make sure there isn't something going on there. Since both the Wubi installer and the Live CD utilize a lot of RAM during the boot/install processes. MemTest will take a while to run but it should give you a good idea if there is something going on.

[Dacha204]

@TechieSmarts Yes. Windows works normally. I can't boot up into Ubuntu. I tried to reinstall (Wubi) with no success. I couldn't boot up straight from a LiveCD also. :(