Installing WIndows 8(ISO) on ubuntu

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2014-07
  • Nandhu

    in windows 7, just mounted the windows 8 iso image and i ran setup.exe . it upgraded to windows 8. but in ubuntu 13.10 i cannot do so,i even tried booting from USB,"it says "failed to load operating system"..what now, should i do to install windows ? dont need any part of ubuntu .just want to erase entirely, including boot memory.

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  • Cornelius

    To erase Ubuntu you'll need a bootable USB or DVD with Windows. I see from your question that you have tried to install from USB.

    A bootable Windows USB in Ubuntu can be made only with WinUSB which is free/open-source and can be installed with:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:colingille/freshlight
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install winusb

    If you have another Windows machine, you can make a Windows bootable USB using Rufus, which is free.


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  • DigitalSea

    I recently obtained a copy of Mac OS Snow Leopard in VMware (.vmdk) format. It is incredibly slow when running virtualised and I would like to just install it directly to my machine dual booting with Windows 7 (32 bit). Is there any way preferably free that I can convert a VMware .vmdk image to an .iso I can burn to a DVD to boot from?

    I've seen this done in Linux and presume there is a way to do it in Windows as well. Downloading another copy that isn't a VMware image isn't an option considering my broadband plan is creeping closer to its limit for the month.


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  • Journeyman Geek

    You can't convert a VMDK (a hard drive image) to a iso - a cd image - in addition iirc how a cd and a hardrive boot is different. You can boot linux off a .img (a generic hard drive type) or windows off a vhd (a hard drive image varient).

    For converting between image types, your best bet is the qemu-img with qemu - but i seriously doubt you can do what you want to do.

    Alternately i SUPPOSE you could make a DMG image with carbon copy cloner, and do something with disk tool from OS X, but you might as well do a full reinstall if you get a copy of OS X.

  • Pieero

    How would I do that ?

    Get a live CD of linux (the distro you prefer)

    Boot on the VMWare on the live CD (on burned disk or iso file)

    when booted, open a terminal locate the device you want to clone mount

    mount

    this will show you a list a device
    then unmount this device if it is mounted

    umount /dev/sda1 (eg.)

    plug an empty usb key and connect through to the VM
    or add a virtual hard drive (mapped to a partition)
    or connect to shared folder of host
    and clone using dd 

    dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/your/destination/file/path