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Wubi?
Wubi was my favorite way to install (and use) Ubuntu on a Windows® machine. Please refer to these pages for more information:
- that official website (dead, wubi is not supported anymore),
- that French page (http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/wubi), or the one you are currently reading in English.
Create a new directory to serve as the mount location:
sudo mkdir /media/mydisk # On Ubuntu from 12.04, /media/USER/mydisk with your username ($USER)
Mount the .disk file (which is like an ISO disk image) in the target directory (/media/mydisk, or the one of your choice, created in 1.):
sudo mount -o loop /host/ubuntu/mydisks/root.disk /media/mydisk # Maybe adapt this path to the correct destination of the rook.disk file
When you are done working with the mounted disk, do not forget to unmount it (always unmount it!):
sudo umount /media/mydisk
Avis
Sudo right?
These explanations require that you have sudo right on your machine. The pmount software can be installed to allow non-sudo users to still be able to mount a disk.
Note
The main reference seems to be this page on the official Ubuntu documentation, or this page on AskUbuntu.com.
If this fails, you can try to:
Something like this:
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /media/USER/FOLDER
The correct path /dev/sdb1 to use (might be something else) will be given by:
sudo fdisk -l
Finally check that the disk has been well mounted with:
mount # gives info about mounted disks df # other info
Note
This page is mainly here because I fail to remember these stupid commands...