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So yes I am new to Linux in general, but my main question is I had Ubuntu as a secondary boot off of windows XP. I installed it about a year ago... tinkered with it for a while then left it be. Just booted it back up a few weeks ago and started to update it. Found that i had a 9.04 Version of Ubuntu and the newest version is 9.10. Tried to just have it update itself, but during the process it froze my machine and i had to shut it down after a day. Turned it back on and tried to boot Linux again. It booted, but not in a GUI interface just command lines. As I am a not familiar with any type of commands with Linux, I then deleted it from Windows or so i thought through the uninstaller. I am now trying to re-install Ubuntu 9.10 and cant. I get a message saying
An error has occurred: Cannot install into h:\Ubuntu.
There is another file or directory with this name.
Please remove before continuing.
Any ideas?
Ok Um... Didnt quite understand what you were wanting me to do. I didnt install Linux correctly last time. I ran the install from an .iso Image and installed it within Windows. I did not have a cd.
The partition is gone, and i cant format that old area because i already deleted/uninstalled it through windows.
As far as DD command... I am very new to Linux still and dont really know what that is.
I dont have a working OS of linux right now... Just windows.
Sorry, I know alot about Windows, but nothing about Linux.
So yea, What I believe i did originally was Installed Linux in just some free 30 GB space on my secondary drive. With-out partitioning it. I installed Linux in Windows.
So I Downloaded Ubuntu 9.10 and it is in a .ISO file. I opened the .ISO file in PowerISO in windows and then clicked the wubi.exe file. A screen came up and said Ubuntu Installer. It gives me a choice of what drive to install it to, what installation size, to set my user name and password, then says to install. This is how i did it last time and it worked.
But this time it gives me that error...
An error has occurred: Cannot install into h:\Ubuntu.
There is another file or directory with this name.
Please remove before continuing.
So I Downloaded Ubuntu 9.10 and it is in a .ISO file. I opened the .ISO file in PowerISO in windows and then clicked the wubi.exe file. A screen came up and said Ubuntu Installer. It gives me a choice of what drive to install it to, what installation size, to set my user name and password, then says to install. This is how i did it last time and it worked.
Ah, so you are using a VM!
Excerpt from wikipedia:
Quote:
Wubi adds an entry to the Windows boot menu which allows the user to run Linux. Ubuntu is installed within a file in the Windows file system (c:\ubuntu\disks\root.disk), as opposed to being installed within its own partition. This file is seen by Linux as a real hard disk. [1] Wubi also creates a swap file in the Windows file system (c:\ubuntu\disks\swap.disk), in addition to the memory of the host machine. This file is seen by Ubuntu as additional RAM.[1]
I would delete those two files first, then search for "wubi" and "ubuntu" and perhaps "h:\" in the Windows search and delete all relevant files.
So I ran a scan on my drive, and only a folder named Ubuntu came up. Inside that folder was a Install folder and a disks folder. Inside both of those was a folder named BOOT. but inside both of the boot folders there was nothing. Do i just need to delete the empty folders?
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