<div dir="ltr">Sorry for the extra message: you can of course create a bootable USB stick and run Ubuntu without unetbootin mentioned in my last message (see <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/try-ubuntu-before-you-install">http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/try-ubuntu-before-you-install</a>) but the wubi.exe is the windows installer (not for a live USB trial and newer windows machines will not accept wubi.exe; you have to download a 64-bit Ubuntu: <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/install-ubuntu-with-windows">http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/install-ubuntu-with-windows</a> <div>
<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:37 PM, john thiels <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jthiels@gmail.com" target="_blank">jthiels@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'm going to ask some maybe stupid questions and make some stupid assumptions but here goes:<div><br>
</div><div>Is your BIOS set to run from a USB key? </div><div><br></div><div>When you made the USB key, what did you look at it on? Your windows machine or on Ubuntu? </div>
<div><br></div><div>The wubi.exe file is your Windows installer and won't open on Ubuntu--it looks like the Ubuntu machine is interpreting it as a possible zip file or unknown file. If you put your USB key into a Windows machine to install Ubuntu, what happens?</div>
<div><br></div><div>BTW, this is not a "start-up" USB key, like a live distro on a stick where you can just start up Ubuntu on any computer and then turn if off and it is a Windows computer again. wubi.exe is an installer program (see: <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/windows-installer" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/windows-installer</a>) You could run an .iso with a VM (forgive me if I have the term wrong but I did this a few years ago). Do you want <a href="http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/</a> so that you can have a live Ubuntu distro on a stick? That won't use wubi.exe but will maybe do what you want.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hope this is helpful. </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Adam Behnke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abehnke@gmail.com" target="_blank">abehnke@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">In which method was the live USB created? Also, which ISO did you use (regular ubuntu or another flavor)?<br>
</div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Jeff Hanson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jhansonxi@gmail.com" target="_blank">jhansonxi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">It's possible that the error message is a secondary symptom to some earlier problem. Does the USB drive have enough space for the Ubuntu install?<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:25 PM, gordon webb <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gordonwebb1@yahoo.com" target="_blank">gordonwebb1@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><div style="font-size:14pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif"><div>Hello All<br>
<br>
<br>
When making Start up USB I got the message "Failed to install boot
loader". I am thinking this is why I have been unable to do an install
on my labtop. What do I need to do to make a working start up USB
stick?<br>
<br>
I am using a Dell Ispiron 530 with Ububtu 12.04 to creat the start up USB and following the directions at: <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...n/FromUSBStick</a><br>
<br>
When I looked at what got saved on the USB stick their are 9 folders, 3
sheet icons, and one icon with gears labled wubi.exe. I clicked on the
wubi.exe icon and the following came up in an "Archive Mannager" box:<br>
<br>
An error ocured while loading the archive.<br>
<br>
Archive: /media/FF0B-3D95/wubi.exe<br>
[/media/FF0B-3D95/wubi.exe]<br>
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not<br>
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the<br>
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on<br>
the last disk(s) of this archive.<br>
note: /media/FF0B-3D95/wubi.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive<br>
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /media/FF0B-3D95/wubi.exe or<br>
/media/FF0B-3D95/wubi.exe.zip, and cannot find /media/FF0B-3D95/wubi.exe.ZIP, period.<br>
<br>
Gordon33
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