problem converting to ext3 file system

Ahmad Abou el-naga champion_2010 at hotmail.com
Wed Feb 10 00:22:46 UTC 2010



> > >
> > > 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?
> 
yes now I have a partition that is formatted as ext3 and about 520 unallocated space >> I wanted to make them as swap but i'm afraid to apply this because I can only do it as primary swap..the error is still there"Unable to find a medium containing a live file system" on cd booting installation
 		 	   		  
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