download-version of wubi for lucid does not work (no cd/dvd)

[Michael Kofler]

I downloaded wubi.exe (date: April 8th; is there no newer version?) from http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/ and started it on Windows 7 64 bit. It shows only two options (for me in german language): Full installation (reboot) and Learn more. It does not show the third option to actually install Lucid with Wubi.

Wubi probably works when it is started from a Lucid Desktop CD, but for my test, I have no CD. I want Wubi to download the iso and then install. But I cannot get in the configuration dialog.

On a related note: Wubi also does not work when it is run from the Lucid DVD. Same symptoms as above. I know it cannot use the DVD as a data source (which is a pity), but again it would be great if it at least would show an option to download a Lucid ISO.

[Agostino Russo (ago)]

If you have the DVD ISO around, it could be that one is detected and therefore the wubi installation option is disabled (since it is not supported for DVDs)

[Michael Kofler (michael-kofler)]

hm; I rebooted Windows without ever putting the DVD into the computer, and the downloaded wubi.exe actually worked; strange

I still feel this is not perfect; the best solution would be, if wubi.exe, whenever it detects a 'wrong' CD/DVD, would just work and offer to download the necessary iso; and if this is impossible, I guess it would be better to drop wubi.exe from the dvd altogether

background: I am author of a german book on Ubuntu, and we plan to put DVDs (32/64 bit) into the book to give readers the choice between live and text modus installation; it would be great if wubi could be supported as well

[Norbert Schulze (n-schulze)]

I start from http://releases.ubuntu.com/lucid/wubi.exe on 3 separate windows XP (SP3) clients. The wubi-installer fails on all clients with the same bug message. See attachment: wubi-10.04.1-rev190.log

[bcbc (bcbc)]

@Norbert, The version of wubi.exe on the website is incorrect. This is documented in bug 722955.

[Norbert Schulze (n-schulze)]

@bcbc, Yes this version works. Canonical should change the wubi.exe on http://releases.ubuntu.com/lucid/