Maverick Wubi fails to install when no network is present.

[Jeff Lane ]

Attempting to install Maverick 32bit onto Windows XP via Wubi. I downloaded the whole ISO, made a USB stick and ran Wubi from the stick.

Wubi begins the install process then fails with the following error:

An error occurred:

Cannot download the metalink and therefore the ISO

For more information, please see the log file: c:\docume~1\dreadp~1\locals~1\temp\wubi-10.10-rev193.log

What exactly do I need network access for to do this installation? I've downloaded the full ISO image. Requiring users to also download further content from the internet (if that's the case here and this isn't simply a bug) is ridiculous (and not viable for users in other parts of the world who may not have constant/reliable high speed internet access.

I've got the full ISO, there's no reason why I should have to download an ISO during a wubi install.

[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

Yeah, just retried with network active and, running Wubi from my USB stick that was built using the Maverick Desktop ISO requires me to re-download the Maverick Desktop ISO.

Fail.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

There's no need for comments like "Fail" in Ubuntu bug reports. We'll look at this - it's obviously a bug.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Perhaps you could attach the Wubi log file referred to, to speed up debugging?

[Daniel Deimert (dd-swe)]

WUBI install fails on ubuntu 10.10 amd64 as well. log attached.

[Mukul (mukul-pandey)]

Yes, it seems to be a similar bug.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/577003

[floid (jkanowitz)]

Bumped into this today and was disappointed.

WUBI has an arbitrary(?) source filesystem size of 900000000 set at compile-time. The authors decided that if the source filesystem is larger, it can't possibly be the right distribution and WUBI should fetch the ISO from the Internet.

This does not work so cheerfully when you are trying to use WUBI on a system where Windows is having trouble with wireless etc.

Per a quick Google search, the fellows at "http://hacktolive.org/wiki/Wubi_and_Super_OS" have already tracked down the culprit definition as "max_iso_size=900000000" in the source tree's /data/isolist.ini.

If this prevents foot shooting in other cases, a command-line option to ignore the limit would still be nice when using 1GB USB sticks and similar.

[floid (jkanowitz)]

As followup, making the partition on the USB stick <900MB with Palimpsest still has WUBI downloading via BitTorrent now that a network is available. Maybe I wasn't aggressive enough in resizing the partition (~892MB according to Palimpsest), or maybe there's another issue on top of this.

Since it's "working" now, it hasn't pointed me to a log file to examine.

[rowijade (rwjames-dennis)]

I have run into the same problem. I tried installing a couple times. The log is attached.

[Kajar Murumaa (kajar8)]

I dont know if this is somehow related, but If I launched my torrent client (bittorrent) and started downloading the iso file.

While downloading I ran wubi.exe and it started downloading.

So...
Try launching torrent client and then wubi
or start downloading the correct file via torrent and start wubi. I cancelled the torrent from torrent client after Wubi started working.