My laptop is one of the old Dell laptops... the tiny ones. It doesn't have a CD drive and I don't have a portable CD drive anywhere... I don't know how installing any Linux things work as my friend plugged in a flashdrive and ran an application and it downloaded.
As for the error:
*THE NINJA is my flashdrive
Archive: /media/THE NINJA/wubi.exe
[/media/THE NINJA/wubi.exe]
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
note: /media/THE NINJA/wubi.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /media/THE NINJA/wubi.exe or
/media/THE NINJA/wubi.exe.zip, and cannot find /media/THE NINJA/wubi.exe.ZIP, period.EDIT: Made the error easier to read...
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My friend downloaded a download link from the Ubuntu website and put it on a flashdrive. We extracted the files on the computer, and double clicked wubi.exe (Double clicking .exe's are our first instinct) since that is basically how we installed EasyPeasy. Yet this is the error that comes up.
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You can also go for an Xubuntu install. Same thing, just a different wrapper and lower system requirements. Edit: oh, easypeasy is more like that Mint. Doesn't really matter imo, I just prefer real operating systems over the mobile/streamlined ones.
You should be able to install from a flash drive and there are also usb cd/dvd drives if you work with older laptops or ultrabooks often.
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A few months ago, my friend installed EasyPeasy (a Linux OS that uses an older version of Ubuntu) onto my laptop. We did it because it is old and had Windows XP on it. I have used it for a few months and liked it, but I decided I wanted to use the latest Ubuntu. Soon after, I figured that I could not, in fact, use the newest version of Ubuntu, I asked my friend to install Ubuntu, but we kept getting an error. I am using a flashdrive with the .iso for Ubuntu on it. I don't really use Linux often, so, what I am asking is, how do you install Ubuntu on a laptop with EasyPeasy already installed, using a flashdrive?
*Sorry for grammar and/or spelling errors.
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