I have Windows 7 installed on my machine, and I used 12.04's wubi installer with the command wubi.exe --32bit
. I have installed Ubuntu this way several times before successfully. For some reason, in 13.04, I can't log in using my chosen credentials, and anyway, I'm interested in 12.04, which is very stable and satisfying. Any ideas why 13.04 installed instead of 12.04, when I specifically used 12.04's wubi installer?
Ubuntu – Using 12.04’s wubi installs 13.04 instead
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Best Answer
You're not using the latest version of
wubi.exe
. You have 12.04.1 instead of 12.04.2. It's release specific and that's part of the problem of why you're getting the development release. Also the same reason it rejects the ISO which is release 12.04.When you first got the
wubi.exe
it was the current version at that time (12.04.1). But since then they've updated everything (for LTS releases they have 4 subsequent releases, each with a new version ofwubi.exe
) and now it's no longer valid and will only work offline with the 12.04.1 ISO.Your ISO isn't 12.04.1 or 12.04.2, it's the original 12.04. And this is it rejecting the 12.04 ISO:
And this is it not finding the diskimage (no longer available) and downloading the development release diskimage:
I'll still file the bug report, because it shouldn't download the dev release. But you need to redownload the latest
wubi.exe
from http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/windows-installer