problem converting to ext3 file system

[Ahmad Abou el-naga]

I want a permanent installation not a wubi one so I am downloading Gparted to convert to ext3 and swap for this..

> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 20:53:31 +0100
> Subject: Re: problem converting to ext3 file system
> From: arnaud.bourree at gmail.com
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> 
> Sorry, I didn't realized that you want to install through Wubi;  with
> Wubi, your ext3 will be a file in NTFS.
> Take a look to this page for more detail how to proceed:
> http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articles/14039.aspx
> I've never do it personally.
> 
> Arnaud.
> 
> 2010/2/9 Ahmad Abou el-naga <champion_2010 at hotmail.com>:
> > the error says: Unable to find a medium containing a live file system >>
> > recently I have created an unformatted drive of about 29 Gb what next?
> >
> >> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:31:10 +0100
> >> Subject: Re: problem converting to ext3 file system
> >> From: arnaud.bourree at gmail.com
> >> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> You cannot convert NTFS to ext3 partition.
> >> You can delete your NTFS partition and then create ext3 partition
> >> If you want to keep data from NTFS partition, then you need space for
> >> new ext3 partition in order to copy under Linux data from NTFS to ext3
> >> and then delete NTFS partition.
> >>
> >> During Kubuntu installation, what is the error message?
> >>
> >> Arnaud.
> >>
> >> 2010/2/9 Ahmad Abou el-naga <champion_2010 at hotmail.com>:
> >> > hello all,
> >> > I want to convert from NTFS to ext3 to be able to install Kubuntu and
> >> > make
> >> > it work. I have installed it through Wubi on a separate NTFS drive and
> >> > it
> >> > when I try to install it from the Kubuntu on NTFS( the one installed
> >> > through
> >> > wubi) it says: "no root file system defined"..I have made about 512 mb's
> >> > unalocated space to be swap and just want to format the NTFS drive as
> >> > ext3
> >> > to install Kubuntu on this separate drive (its about 28.5 GB's) and when
> >> > I
> >> > try to install Kubuntu through booting from cd its after choosing the
> >> > language ,>>install Kubunto >> then the first page installing after
> >> > "Kubuntu" sign it makes an error before starting the setup
> >> > what can i do?
> >> >
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