Not able to start Kubuntu

[samarita]

Dear Sirs,

I installed Kubuntu using Wubi after installation I get the message that no such partition available.

I always find this very odd. You use an installer that suppose to do the job and suddenly something goes wrong. Are these packages tested? I know it's a beta version, but it should work.

Regards,

[samarita (edward-roosje)]

I also want to report that Wubi simply does not work on some computers. Installation stops and shows the following message: cannot access the CD; please check that it is not used by another .....

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

samarita, the CD issue is usually due to bad medium see https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/207137

For the above (no such partition is available) I would appreciate more info. Please check https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#head-a2f73efbce9a94cf460a095713c599594c3a05d1 first and be as specific as possible regarding the error message. If you have multiple hard disk in particular, see the first section in the link above.

[samarita (edward-roosje)]

Hello,

Thanks for responding. I am trying to install Kubuntu again so I can send you the exact error.

But Wubi is not able to access the site. Error: the requested url returned error: 403. This should be simple I guess.

Regards,

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

That was a temporary server outage, should be ok now. Otherwise download the Desktop ISO manually from any mirror and put it in the same dir as wubi executable

[samarita (edward-roosje)]

I wanted to show you these messages. I installed Kubunt using Wubi. But it is not starting. It keeps on searching the cd-players and then it show the following message:

Busybox V1.1.3
(debian 1:1.3- 5ubuntu12) Built-in sehll (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands
(initramfs)

I hope you can make something out of this? Is it always so dificult to install this?

Regards,

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

boot in verbose mode (press esc at boot after selecting "ubuntu") and please provide /casper.log

[Robbie Williamson (robbiew)]

For what it's worth, Kubuntu installed flawlessly for me on Windows XP using Wubi-8.10-rev515 from http://wubi-installer.org/devel/minefield/.