problem converting to ext3 file system

[Billie Erin Walsh]

Ahmad Abou el-naga wrote:
> 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?

Did you create a partition on the free space?

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